AVONDALE, La. -- The first team event on the PGA Tour in 36 years has produced the first penalty for slow play since 1995.
PGA Tour officials say Miguel Angel Carballo and Brian Campbell were penalized one shot on the 14th hole of the opening round at the Zurich Classic for their second bad time. They opened with a 74 in foursomes.
It took the PGA Tour's first official team event in 36 years to produce the first slow-play penalty since 1995. Brian Campbell and Miguel Angel Carballo were hit with a 1-stroke penalty at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. The penalty came in the first round during alternate shot play. Typically a player gets a warning before a 1-stroke penalty is issued but the PGA Tour said this extends to partners in a team event -- likely leading to the penalty, as both players got bad times. This is the first official team event since the Disney Classic in 1981 and the first slow-play penalty since Glen Day at the 1995 Honda Classic. The Masters also gave 14 year old amateur Tianlang Guan a penalty for slow play in 2013.
They were on the clock when Carballo went over his allotted time on the 12th hole. Then Campbell had a bad time on the 14th hole.
Typically, a player receives a warning after the first bad time and a one-shot penalty after his second. Because they were a team in foursomes, however, rules specify that a "player" includes his partners.
Until Thursday, the last time a PGA Tour player was penalized one shot for pace of play was Glen Day in the third round of the 1995 Honda Classic.