McKibbin, 22, had earned his PGA Tour card for this year, but now he heads to LIV Golf, where he joins Jon Rahm's Legion XIII.

There always seems to be an inflection point each professional golf season, during which the slow play problem dominates the discourse on the PGA Tour. The issue isn’t a new one. It’s an age-old problem in the pro game. Everyone knows it: Golf can crawl.

Among the changes that will be tried out: testing the use of distance-measuring devices, publicizing pace-of-play data for players, and disclosing fines and penalties for slow-play violators.