My view is twofold. First, I do not see a direct connection between the fee and the pace except in this example. People who play their normal home track from the middle tees, for some reason, want to play the back tees from Pebble, Pinehurst, Troon North, etc. Not sure why they take this view, but they do. The facilities that do the best job are those that attempt to pre-qualify players by handicap and place them on the right tees. The second reason, I think, is simply watching some of the slow tour players and mimicking their actions. Anyone agree with this? I will say that when good planning goes into the design, as in the case with Talking Stick, even a slow round is probably no more than 4.5 hours, due to green/tee proximity, and the fact you can normally find your ball.