Alex, not to nit pic, but the article I read said she was over her allotted time on the par 3 by 39 seconds. That doesn't seem like a judgement call to me. It seems very precise. But, I would agree if the rule was arbitrarily applied and there were other obvious violations and only the axe fell on these two with warning on 9 and axe on 12, then that would not be good. I don't know if there were any other obvious time issues, in this tournament. They'll probably yammer it to death on TGC.
I hope they stay on top of the time issues, no matter who, what or when it is a problem. This only bleeds over to amateur golf and slows up our own local course play, and that seems to be a universal complaint for too many years now.