What PGA Tour must do to put an end to ridiculously long rounds

The buzzer echoed through TGL’s arena in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., like the Knicks had just forced a violation inside the Garden. As the red digits hit zero inside the venue and on the ESPN broadcast, it signaled that Tiger Woods — one of the PGA Tour’s all-time greats and a co-founder of the new indoor venture — hadn’t started his birdie putt on the 10th hole before the 40-second timer ran out.

In a way, it was a bit ironic that Woods was at the center of the first-ever shot-clock violation in TGL. One of the faces of the sport for more than two decades factored into an innovative league’s innovative rule.

And with the PGA Tour continuing to struggle with its pace of play, a topic debated for years that has materialized yet again in the earliest stages of the recent slate, it’s time for the Tour to take inspiration from TGL.

TGL made it clear-cut with the shot clock and instant penalty, and the Tour should adopt that.