Golf leaders might want to pick up the pace in enforcing rules

Golf needs to get tougher.

Or maybe you’re cool with the final round of the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach starting on Father’s Day and ending on July Fourth. If the wind whips off Carmel Bay, they might not finish until Labor Day.

J.B. Holmes revived this old storyline — slow … play … on … the … PGA … Tour — during his glacial stroll to victory Sunday at the Genesis Open. Holmes earned widespread ridicule for his oh-so-deliberate pace.

But the PGA Tour shares blame for decades of ignoring the problem.

Tour pros already hit shots in church-like silence. They expect all spectators in the immediate vicinity to stand perfectly still.