If You’re Paired With Kevin Na Basically You’re Shagged

The US golf digest journalists have turned a slow news day into a slow golf day by trying to calculate exactly how badly Kevin Na’s slow play affects his playing partners.

NaAccording to Golf Digest Ryan Moore and Scott Stallings (paired with Na at Bay Hill) might as well not show up this week.

We analyzed the scores of every one of Kevin Na's playing partners since the start of 2012 -- when Na's slow pace of play at that year's Players caused a stir -- and compared it to their average score for that round from the entire year. So, for example, if Player X played with Kevin Na in the third round of a 2013 tournament and shot 72, we compared that score to his third-round scoring average from that year.

And the results

From the start of 2012 through the 2014 Valspar Championship, Kevin Na has played with 220 PGA Tour golfers. On average, those 220 golfers shoot about 0.4 strokes higher when playing with Na. That's almost half a stroke, meaning that if someone plays with Na in all four rounds of a tournament, he'll be expected to shoot 1.6 strokes higher than if he played with someone else.

I might at this point offer my own conclusions.

Yes Kevin Na might be a slow player but surely this is a dodgy exercise, based on dodgy criteria designed to do nothing more than upset the guy and turn public opinion against him. Comparing a partners score playing with Na to their average score from that round for the year surely is a ludicrous criteria? No mention of all the other hundreds of variables involved here?  Like what percentage of the partners other rounds were on the tougher courses on the PGA Tour roster?

Like I said so many times previously, Kevin Na is still a slow player, but he has made a huge effort to speed up.  And there are slower players out there, who because they rank higher, are not the focus of articles based on dodgy calculations, because they just wouldn’t stand for it.

And besides according to the legend Tony Johnstone, Kevin has a lot on his mind before hitting a shot.

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