There’s never a good time to be slapped with a slow-play penalty. Having it happen at a major championship is the worst of all places.
China’s Yan Liu was handed a two-stroke slow-play penalty Friday on the 16th hole of her second round at the Amundi Evian Championship. It was on the seventh hole at Evian Resort in France. She made a double-bogey 7 on the par-5 hole and missed the cut by three shots.
Following that double bogey she then bogeyed the next hole and closed with a birdie, but that stretch ultimately is what cost Liu a chance at playing the weekend at the fourth LPGA major of the year.
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The LPGA updated its pace-of-play policy earlier this year to make it stricter after players often called for it last year. The new policy gives a fine for anyone who is 1-5 seconds over the allotted time limit, a one-stroke penalty for anyone 6-15 seconds over and a two-stroke penalty for a player taking longer than 16 seconds over time.
There have now been four slow-play penalties since that policy was released in February—two of the one-stroke variety and two were two-strokes, including Liu in France. Chisato Iwai was handed a two-stroke penalty during the second round of the Black Desert Championship in May.
