The worst thing you can say to the PGA Tour's trio of time czars—Gary Young, senior VP of Rules & Competition; Stephen Cox, VP of rules & Tournament Administration; and Billy Schroder, senior VP of Competition Special Projects—is that the tour just doesn't do anything about pace of play.

While negotiations aimed at reunifying men's golf grind to a halt, the PGA Tour is taking steps to speed up play, writes Iain Carter.

At last. After years, nay decades of shameful inaction, the PGA Tour has pledged to follow its own rules and hit the snails where it hurts – on their scorecards.