Carlota Ciganda. Photo: Getty Images/Luke Walker. speed up,» and with only a month left before the clash with the US team, is it possible to understand that you have problems with the pace of the game? her because of her reputation.
After two points to 70 here at the AIG Women's Open, leaving the Spaniard two behind the pace of the first round set by American Ellie Ewing, she passionately asked for a pardon. “This is unfair,” said Tsiganda. «I'm a good person and I respect everyone when I play, so I just hope they can do the same to me.»
Two weeks ago at the Evian Championship, the fourth major of the season, Siganda got hit. with two free throws for breaking a stopwatch, but refused to sign the final card when her 72 turned into a 74 in the second round. Pro golf is about.”
Tellingly, however, there was almost no sympathy in the locker room. World No. 1 Nelly Korda said: «I like to play with her, but the Rules of Golf are the Rules of Golf, and they must be followed, and it's good that they are followed.»
Earlier this week, Suzanne Pettersen, who is the captain of the European team for the match in Spain in five weeks, intervened. Sarah Schmezel due to slow play on the last hole two years ago. If visitors want to scare Ciganda, who will become a local hero in the Kortesin estate, they must now be sure of her weak spot.
Giganda is two strokes behind the Women's Open leader at Walton Heath. Photo: Getty Images/Richard Heathcote
“I mean she should get the gist and speed up, right?” Pettersen said. “Obviously she is not one of the fastest players to start. She had a couple of incidents in Evian. She didn't agree with what the rules official had to say, and that's on her conscience. But I think speeding up will solve that problem.”
Ciganda just doesn't have that. “Some players play faster and some players play slower,” she said after a free kick and, under the circumstances, a fearless morning job with three birds and one bogey. “I mean, of course, I can be faster, but many of them can be faster too.
“I know that I am not fast, as I know that there are many faster players. I think there are a lot of slow players who don't get punished and don't keep time as often as I do.»
Many golfers will no doubt exclaim «Hallelujah!» to the fact that sanctions are applied to snails in the women's game. In the men's game, the PGA Tour has gone almost 30 years without a penalty for slow play in individual competitions, while one of the few penalties handed down in majors was to 14-year-old Tianlang Guang of China.
The scourge of 5 hour 30 minute rounds is becoming more common, but the mitigation presented is that the rule itself is too vague. Ciganda criticized the regulation and, in truth, it is not even a «rule», but a «recommendation».
Rule 5.6b states: «It is recommended that the player take a stroke no more than 40 seconds after he or she will be able (or should be) to play without distraction or distraction.”
Chiganda claims Evian's penalty came 52 seconds later. «They always say time starts when it's your turn to play, but when is that?» — said Chiganda, the 31st racket of the world. “It's so subjective. If they put a referee in every group, a lot of girls will be penalized and I think sometimes it's not fair. It's not something I can control, so I don't want to think too much.»
Ewing is ahead of the second-place group, including Emily Christine Pedersen of Denmark and Perrin Delacour of France, while Charlie Hull is the best . Placed an Englishwoman on one under. Corda and Leona Maguire of Ireland are one more behind.
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