There always seems to be an inflection point each professional golf season, during which the slow play problem dominates the discourse on the PGA Tour. The issue isn’t a new one. It’s an age-old problem in the pro game. Everyone knows it: Golf can crawl.

Among the changes that will be tried out: testing the use of distance-measuring devices, publicizing pace-of-play data for players, and disclosing fines and penalties for slow-play violators.

P erhaps the least surprising thing the PGA Tour has learned since it launched its Fan Forward survey initiative last June is that it has a pace-of-play problem. What it intends t