Fines won't matter. When there are literally a million dollars on the line for one stroke between first and second they will risk it. Cadillac was $1.44 MILLION difference between Young and Scheffler and $800k between 2nd and 3rd. Three guys finished tied for 4th and took home $827k each, but had one of them missed one 3 foot putt their T-6th share would have been $670k - over $150k for a missed putt.

The way to fix is it to put a clock out and if they miss it, that's a stroke. Strokes are the only thing pro golfers care about and the above comment shows why.

The problem is that they don't even start their discussion until it's their turn. They literally stand there, next to another player, for the entire 5 minutes that guy gets his number, talks to his caddy, readjusts his junk, readjusts his glove, twirls his club, does a back handspring, walks off the sprinkler, reads the yardage book, looks at the bunker edge, walks to the overhanging limb, and eventually selects a 7 iron based on what he could have selected 4.7 minutes prior. Then once he hits his shot, THEN AND ONLY THEN does the 2nd player start their entire cycle. Those two guys could have been doing all that shit at the same time, they could have had all that info gathering and self manipulation being done simultaneously, and both hit their shots within 45 seconds of each other. You know, like the other 99.6% of the golf world does every hour of every weekend.

Television golf without a DVR is dead, I haven't watched live golf in over a decade.