Charley Hull is one of the most vocal critics of slow play. Earlier, her solutions included membership confiscation and a ban, but now, her solution is somewhat hilarious but goes on to show how frustrated she is with pros who take an agonizingly long time to finish a round.

In the Quiet Please! podcast with golfer-turned-broadcaster Mel Reid and Kira Dixon, Hull was asked what she would do if she were the commissioner to solve slow play. The three-time LPGA Tour winner said, “I do hate slow play. What would I do to slow players? How would I resolve it? Shove a rocket up their a**.”

Reid and Dixon burst out laughing, but Hull was dead silent, underscoring her frustration. “Make her commissioner. We need Charley. We need to get things done around here,” Reid quipped. The comment from Hull might have been made in jest, but it’s very on brand for the English pro who is known for her blunt remarks. She has never hidden her disdain for slow players and previously suggested a radical and unpopular solution to tackle it.

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“I’m quite ruthless, but [my idea would be] if you get three bad ­timings, every time it’s a two-shot penalty. If you have three of them, you lose your Tour card instantly. I’m sure that would hurry a lot of people up, and they won’t want to lose their Tour card. That would kill the slow play, but they [LPGA] would never do that,” the 30-year-old offered a candid response last year.

The LPGA Tour has long dealt with slow play, with Hull’s group at the 2025 Annika finishing their moving day in near darkness. They were out on the course for nearly six hours as the groups ahead took time to finish their round. Hull and her peers had been complaining about slow play for a long time. The LPGA Tour has brought in a new policy and players have been punished as well.

Pros who go six to fifteen seconds over the allowed time receive a single-stroke penalty, and going over 16 seconds results in a two-stroke penalty. The policy has been implemented rigorously, and one golfer lost her shot at the first LPGA Tour victory after getting punished for slow play.

Arpichaya Yubol was docked one stroke at the 2026 ShopRite LPGA Classic on the moving day. She eventually lost the tournament by a single stroke as Celine Boutier walked away with the title. She was the second player to be punished under the same rule after Jin Hee Im at the JM Eagle LA Championship. Slow play at the LPGA remains a headache regardless, and Charley Hull has continued to provide radical solutions to exterminate the issue.

In September 2025, while speaking with Sky Sports Golf, she opined that the LPGA Tour can ban slow players for three months if they get timed too many times. Alternatively, the tour can also reduce the number of pros who make the cut to finish final two rounds quicker.

That’s something the LPGA Tour has already done once. In 2023, the LPGA Tour shortened the weekend field size in full-field events from the top 70 and ties to the top 65 and ties. The tour said the change would make the field more manageable on weekends. Charley Hull suggested reducing it further to the top 55 and ties.

While slow play remains one of the biggest concerns Charley Hull would like to resolve on the LPGA Tour, there are a few more things she needs to change.

Charley Hull on what she would change on the LPGA Tour

In the same podcast, Hull revealed another thing she would want to change immediately if she were put in charge of the LPGA Tour.

“We definitely need way more fans. 100 percent. If you looked at the British Open last year and the final round, that atmosphere was so good. And I wish we had this week in and week out,” she said.

Mel Reid agreed to that and said she had even had a conversation about it with Commissioner Craig Kessler. She noted that the prize money has increased significantly, and social media has also improved. However, she said the atmosphere at LPGA events still falls short of expectations.

Charley Hull said that she would simply make the tickets free to motivate more fans to come and watch the LPGA stars play. She also mentioned “fan zones” at events in England, which she would like the LPGA to adopt in the United States.

“I feel like that would be such an appealing thing for young kids and everything and bringing families,” she added.

Increasing fan attendance is clearly another priority for Charley Hull. However, her strongest opinions remain reserved for the LPGA Tour’s pace-of-play problem. Whether it’s stricter penalties, suspensions, or even her latest tongue-in-cheek solution, the English star continues to push for faster rounds and a better experience for everyone involved.