Creamer: Slow play is killing golf

Paula Creamer admits it wasn't the best timing when the USGA unveiled its anti-slow play initiative but she is totally behind the "While We're Young" message she helped get out in the TV ad she filmed with Butch Harmon.

"I can't tell you how many times I've heard it since it ran from girls, saying, 'hey while we're young? on the course to each other," she says. "It's just not the way golf is meant to be played. It's getting out of control. As a player, you've got to tell each other, 'hey, we've got to pick it up.' When it's your turn, you go."

Creamer, who is prepping for the Ricoh Women's British Open after a fourth place finish at the U.S. Women's Open at Sebonack last week, was at P.J. Clarke's in Manhattan Monday discussing a variety of topics.

Slow play was chief among them.

"There is a group of girls who you know are slower players," Creamer says. "You see when you look at your group and you're like, 'this is going to be a nightmare,' because you're not playing your game. It's not fair. It sort of affects you."

Creamer didn't name the slowpokes by name but she notes, "People always assume it's the rookies. It's not the rookies. It's the veterans who are out there taking a long time. I don't know if they're thinking more about money, who knows?"

Paired in threes before the cut was made at Sebonack, rounds neared the six-hour mark. Same for Merion. But it's not just a problem in the majors. It crops up at every LPGA and PGA Tour event.

"Around the greens. That's the biggest thing. That's where I see it a ton. That and second shots," Creamer notes. "Say we're playing together and it's your turn to putt and I'm just standing here and then it's my turn. Then I go do all my stuff. You can do everything before it's your turn. Get a little farther away. It's just moving around."

In the fairway, she says, "The third person to hit should have a club in their hands. There have been times when I'm second to hit and we're almost at the green because the third person hasn't. And now it's getting to the point where it's 'C'mon, we're leaving you behind. We're walking while you're hitting.' It shouldn't be that way."

Creamer said the point was really driven home at Sebonack where heR 10-year-old cousin Caitlin was following her rounds.

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