Nicholas Infanti is the fastest player on the Korn Ferry Tour and Ian Gilligan is the slowest, according to pace-of-play data through the first 11 events of the season.
The PGA Tour’s top developmental circuit recently became the first professional tour to publicly reveal the Average Stroke Time (AST) of its players.
The data was posted on PGATour.comfollowing the conclusion of last week’s Colonial Life Charity Classic. This data shows how players rank relative to field averages, both for a given tournament and for season-long averages. It can give valuable context as to what part of the game a player needs to improve his pace and for rules officials to identify the true culprits of slow play and how they are trending. It's also a momentous day for those who have longed for the Tour to be more transparent, especially with pace of play.
Player's AST is listed for overall speed of players and are broken down into four categories: Off-the-Tee, Approach-the-Green, Around-the-Green and On-the-Green. Tour rules officials have had this information available for several years and talked to players individually about pace of play issues but it had never been previously made public. The initiative to publicize the data for Korn Ferry Tour players was formally approved by the PGA Tour Policy Board in November. It's unclear if or when similar data will be published for the PGA Tour but it would first have to go through a similar governance process.
“The publishing of the AST data on the Korn Ferry Tour is an opportunity to provide greater context around a player’s pace of play and the various factors that may impact it during any given tournament,” said Korn Ferry Tour president Alex Baldwin. “We are hopeful this data is not only additive for our players, but allows our fans to feel more connected to what occurs inside the ropes each and every week.
Mitchell Meissner — who serves on the Korn Ferry Tour Player Advisory Council — is currently ranked 17th in overall speed of play for the 2026 season, averaging nearly five seconds fewer than the average player to hit each shot during competition.
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“There was definitely some interest in comparing my timing data to the data of my buddies,” Meissner said. “I hope the fans will be surprised by how quickly the majority of us play, especially considering all the necessary decisions it takes to play one shot and the significant consequences at stake out here.”
Individual pace-of-play data for players season-long average has been available throughout the ShotLink era, and was used by rules officials to try to change habits. It sometimes served as a wake-up call for players unaware that they they were the problem. Peer pressure has been the most effective means of change. But now those slowpokes on the Korn Ferry Tour will face a potentially more powerful tool for change: public shaming. [There is some concern that it could impact a player's reputation and lead to players being branded as slow for their entire career.] The Korn Ferry Tour currently ranks 129 players who have played sufficient number of rounds for their data to be under consideration.
Korn Ferry Tour pace of play data
Here are the top 10 fastest players on the Korn Ferry Tour in overall speed of play, as it relates to the average:
Avg. Stroke Time
Nicholas Infanti
Dylan Menante
Jack Maguire
Nick Gabrelcik
Robbie Higgins
Taylor Dickson
Brett Stegmaier
Norman Xiong
Logan McAllister
Here are the slowest players on the Korn Ferry Tour:
Avg. Stroke Time
Ian Gilligan
Joseph Bramlett
Augusto Nunez
Chris Korte
Chris Francoeur
Cristobal Del Solar
Yuta Sugiura
Alistair Docherty
And here's a look at this year's KFT winners and where they rank in pace:
Pace ranking
Taylor Dickson
James Nicholas
Alistair Docherty
Jeremy Gandon
Dylan Menante
Cole Sherwood
Adam Schupak is a senior writer covering the PGA Tour for Golfweek.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek:Korn Ferry Tour reveals pace-of-play data, fastest and slowest players