Slow play earns another fine for Johansen

European Tour player Eirik Tage Johansen has been fined for slow play for the second week running – and this time it was £4,000 (€4,500)

The 27-year-old Norwegian was penalised £500 (€560) at last week’s KLM Open in Holland after being put on the clock for the 12th occasion this season.

Then, in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles, he took 19 seconds too long over a tee shot during his second round and because it was his second “bad time” of the year he was fined £4,000.

“A slow player tightens the noose around his own neck,” said the Tour’s senior referee Andy McFee.

“If he has another bad time it would be £6,000 (€6,800).”

The Tour’s record fine for slow play was the £8,000 (€9,000) given to England’s Simon Khan at the 2005 Irish Open – a week after he had been punished £4,000.