The PGA Tour is taking a hard look at whether to allow rangefinders and publicize violations as part of a comprehensive study on pace of play and other enhancements to the game that have come out of a survey of 50,

Perhaps the least surprising thing the PGA Tour has learned since it launched its Fan Forward survey initiative last June is that it has a pace-of-play problem. What it intends to do about it has yet to be determined,

The SI Golf staff debates slow play remedies, exotic playoff formats, Pebble Beach as a signature event and deeper meanings in a canceled LPGA event.

Among the changes that will be tried out: testing the use of distance-measuring devices, publicizing pace-of-play data for players, and disclosing fines and penalties for slow-play violators.

But this is an inflection point for the PGA Tour and slow play, thanks to a convergence of mounting fan outrage, broadcast pressures and the ongoing schism between the tour and LIV Golf. The question isn't whether the tour needs to act,

The four-time major champion has a lot of thoughts on the state of pro golf but said “we shouldn’t try to dumb down golf to appeal to more people.”

If you want proof that time is, indeed, a flat circle, there's no better evidence than golf's slow-play debate. PGA Tour players, commentators, and fans talk about this issue every single year. And yet nothing ever seems to change.