Sorry Bryson — DeChambeau Denied A Spot On Players Council

The PGA Tour has a number of ways to get feedback from the players on tour.

One is the PAC — Players Advisory Council.

One guy in particular has made it known he wants on the PAC and that would be Bryson DeChambeau.

“I really want to make a change here. I’ve asked to be on the PAC committee for three years, and it takes time to get on there,” DeChambeau said last year.

Eight of the 16 PAC members are elected by the membership and the four player directors on the policy board select the remaining eight council members.

Justin Thomas, Charley Hoffman and Peter Malnati were selected by the player directors to run for PAC chairman. Once elected, the chairman ascends to the policy board next season to replace current player/director Johnson Wagner and serve a three-year term.

The current council includes:

Ryan Armour, Paul Casey, David Hearn, Harry Higgs, Hoffman, Billy Horschel, Zach Johnson, Russell Knox, Anirban Lahiri, Malnati, Rory McIlroy, Ryan Palmer, Jon Rahm, Kevin Streelman,  Thomas and Harold Varner III.

The “Player Directors” is where the money is at.  Davis Love III was paid $500,000 a year to serve as a “Player Director.”

So Bryson will have to wait.  In the meantime, he’ll have to pay attention to the tour’s new “Slow Play” policy, which will go into effect after The Masters at the RBC Heritage Classic in Hilton Head.

The pace-of-play will include a shift away from timing groups in favor of keeping individual players on pace.

The new policy was approved by the policy board last year with a focus on what the Tour considers the “individual habits of the slowest players.”

There will be an observation list, and there will penalties for “excessive shot times” for players who take more than 120 seconds to hit a shot.  Players will be given a one-shot penalty if they get a second bad time in a tournament. Under the previous policy, players were only given a stroke penalty for a second bad time in a round.

Players will be placed on the observation list, which will not be made public, when they average more than 45 seconds per shot based on ShotLink data. Players on the observation list, which will be updated each week, will be monitored during rounds, and they must play every shot in 60 seconds.  Any player given two excessive shot times in a single tournament will also be placed on the observation list.

Good luck with that, Bryson.