PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Dottie Pepper certainly wasn’t the first to say it, but her words on the CBS broadcast at Torrey Pines resonated as players finished the final round Saturday in five hours and 31 minutes. The remarks and the exhaustion in her voice carried weight. Viewers felt seen.
“I think we’re starting to need a new word to talk about this pace-of-play issue, and it’s ‘respect’ — for your fellow competitors, for the fans, for broadcasts, for all of it. It’s just got to get better,” Pepper said, walking as a roving commentator during the Farmers Insurance Open in her familiar role.
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