As the PGA TOUR heads into the home stretch of the 2025 season, a clear trend has emerged: The speed of play has picked up, and TOUR officials are working to ensure that the trend continues in a promising direction.
Based on course-level data for the 2025 season through the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday, speed of play on TOUR is trending in the right direction. The median round time on TOUR this season sits at 4 hours and 46 minutes, an improvement of nearly five minutes compared to the median speed at this point in the 2024 season. While that difference is in minutes compared to rounds lasting hours, the 2025 median totals represent the fastest such times on TOUR since 2022.
In digging into the numbers, which are based on data from tournaments conducted by the TOUR, several c