Korn Ferry Tour makes each player's pace-of-play data public for the first time

Nicholas Infanti is the fastest player on the Korn Ferry Tour and Ian Gilligan is the slowest, according to pace-of-play data through the first 11 events of the season. The PGA Tour’s top developmental circuit recently became the first professional tour to publicly reveal the Average Stroke Time (AST) of its players. The data was posted on PGATour.

com following the conclusion of last week’s Colonial Life Charity Classic. This data shows how players rank relative to field averages, both for a given tournament and for season-long averages. It can give valuable context as to what part of the game a player needs to improve his pace and for rules officials to identify the true culprits of slow play and how they are trending.

It's also a momentous day for those who have longed for the Tour to be more transparent, especially with pace of play. Player's AST is listed for overall speed of players and are broken down into four categories: Off-the-Tee, Approach-the-Green, Around-the-Green and On-the-Green. Tour rules officials have had this information available for several years and talked to players individually about pace of play issues but it had never been previously made public.

The initiative to publicize the data for Korn Ferry Tour players was formally approved by the PGA Tour Policy Board in November. It's unclear if or when similar data will be published for the PGA Tour but it would first have to go through a similar governance process. “The publishing of the AST data on the Korn Ferry Tour is an opportunity to provide greater context around a player’s pace of play and the various factors that may impact it during any given tournament,” said Korn Ferry Tour president Alex Baldwin.