Slow play continues to plague professional golf, with LPGA Tour rounds now routinely exceeding 5 hours. World No.11 Charley Hull has proposed a radical solution to address this growing concern.

Hull suggests implementing a "three strikes" system:

• Each slow play violation results in a 2-shot penalty
• Three violations would result in immediate loss of Tour card
• Players would need to return to Q-School to regain status

This proposal came after Hull experienced a nearly 6-hour round during The Annika tournament, where she finished T2nd. "It's ridiculous and I feel sorry for the fans how slow it is out there," Hull stated. "We play Four-Ball at home on a hard golf course and we're round in three and a half, four hours. It is pretty crazy."

While the LPGA Tour has attempted to address slow play through fines and putting players on the clock, these measures have proven largely ineffective. The issue isn't exclusive to women's golf, as men's tours face similar challenges.

Despite the slow play concerns, the tournament concluded successfully with Nelly Korda securing her seventh LPGA Tour title of the year, overcoming Hull's one-stroke overnight advantage to win by three shots.

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