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Get on with it!
By the way, if you're wondering why the pace of play has been so slow, here are just a couple of examples. On day one, after the trio of Louise Stahle, Stacy Prammanasudh and Nicole Castrale had hit their tee-shots at the last hole, two of the three felt unable to hit their approaches without first laboriously pacing out the distance from their balls all the way to the pin. I won't say which two were responsible for this nonsense, but neither one was Castrale.
It gets worse though. Today, Se Ri Pak dumped her approach to the opening hole in the Swilcan Burn in front of the green. She then — unbelievably — asked for a ruling. Eight minutes later, the official arrived, took one look and told her to drop her ball on the fairway side of the water under penalty of one shot. If Pak had even a basic knowledge of golf's rules, all of the above could, of course, have been avoided.
There is one more reason for the slowness of the convoy: the sheer number of shots being expended. Michelle Wie, for example, has just taken an age over a triple bogey at the 13th that will surely see her missing the cut. With five holes to play, the struggling teenager is seven over par and on her way home.
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