Golf Twitter lives to complain, and their favorite topic of all is slow play. Enter J.B. Holmes, who is in the final group on Saturday at the Open Championship and was already lambasted earlier this year at the Genesis Open, which he won, for his snail-like pace. This is a perfect storm of social media whining the likes of which we only see a few times a season.
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The thing is, Golf Twitter is right, as Holmes has continued to display that he could very well be the slowest player on tour (Ben Crane would like a word). He's been as bad as ever this week, and it will only get worse if he remains in contention for his first major championship over the next 24 hours. As it stands, he's at the top of the leader board, and with the added pressure of the final round at a major in addition to some brutal weather descending on Royal Portrush on Sunday, J.B. could set records for slowness.
Those on social media are doing their part to make sure it doesn't happen, though their cries will almost certainly fall on deaf ears. The R&A will do nothing, nothing will happen next week at the WGC event in Memphis or the week after that or the week after that. J.B. and others will continue to take their sweet time. The vicious cycle will continue. For now, all we can do is shout and scream. Here were some of the better shouts and screams on Twitter from Saturday morning as J.B. turtled his way around Royal Portrush's front nine:
https://twitter.com/TwoInchesShort/status/1152607678973136897
https://twitter.com/JustinRayGolf/status/1152608613107666950
https://twitter.com/BrendanPorath/status/1152620567490682880
Finally, a personal favorite from earlier this week, from none other than Club Pro Guy:
CPG never disappoints.
To Shane Lowry's credit, he hasn't let Holmes glacial pace bother him. The Irishman carded a front-nine, three-under 33 to clip Holmes by one stroke. He's at the top of the leader board, as is Holmes. They are currently at two hours and 21 minutes in the 10th fairway.