It took six sudden-death holes to decide a winner at the LPGA’s Volunteers of America Texas Shootout this past Sunday. Sounds exciting, right? Well, if you consider watching over two hours of the same, how shall we say, poorly designed, par-5 18th hole to be exciting, then sure!
Tour veteran Cristie Kerr battled Haru Nomura at a crawling pace for six holes, which caused quite a stir on social media. It mercifully ended when Nomura made a birdie for the win just before sunset, two hours later. The next day Kerr took to Twitter to apologize for slow play, with a caveat.
Congrats to Haru Nomura for winning yesterday. We both played our hearts out!!!!! Hope people can understand why there was slow play #45MPH
— Cristie Kerr (@CKGolferChic) May 1, 2017
Sorry everyone for the slow play yesterday the conditions were incredibly tough and that 18th hole is very difficult. Very tricky w 40mph
— Cristie Kerr (@CKGolferChic) May 1, 2017
Both players took a lot of time by the way and that’s all I’m going to say about that hope everybody remains a fan of the LPGA
— Cristie Kerr (@CKGolferChic) May 1, 2017
Thank you to all my fans out there I love you and I am always appreciate of of your support no matter what!!! #kerrnation
— Cristie Kerr (@CKGolferChic) May 1, 2017
While it was a professional move on Kerr’s part to acknowledge the situation, the fact is something may need to be done to avoid situations like this in the future.
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