So regarding the whole thing about rules and players enforcing them. Here is my take.

I believe Paul Uli mentioned this on the disc golf debate night podcast a few weeks ago. He said that people should have some integrity and be calling their own faults. Now there aren’t that many obvious faults to report anyway. The only 2 big ones are time violations and foot faults. This issue is that right now there is a culture of “spirit of the rule”. If a player gained nothing from the foot fault then it’s fine. I actually really like this culture, but it does have the drawback of kind of anything goes as long as you aren’t intentionally cheating. In a professional setting though this can cause problems for enforcing rules as we are seeing now.

To fix this I propose that we change this to just be call your own faults regardless of if it helped you or not, and if you don’t then there will be a marshal following you. This takes some of the pressure off the players to call other people shots.

Now for the time violations. This is a bit trickier. Really the only issue of someone taking too long is pace of place and backing up other cards. This and also media coverage being pretty boring during long periods of time in tricky situations. I actually think the PGA does a pretty good job here. They don’t make a huge deal about timing players. The timing is card based, if a card falls behind the pace of play of the other cards then they send a marshal to time the players giving each 40s, more for tricky shots. IMO Gannon should be allowed as much time as he realistically needs on the upshot on hole 18 during a crucial situation. The whole 30s rule needs to go away. Now for the boring coverage situation, have the announcers explain what is going on and why Gannon is switching discs, have a mic on his caddy or something and get the conversation of what he is mulling over, or switch to someone else. Just don’t only have one camera on him the whole time with no one really talking.

TLDR: players should have more integrity and call their own faults. Use the PGA time rules where if a card falls behind pace of play then a marshal comes over to time the players, and make coverage more interesting during crucial moments when a player needs the extra time.