The PGA Tour is set to trial the use of rangefinders in a bid to speed up the pace of play, hot on the heels of Rory McIlroy's first Masters win. And World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler has already put forward a new proposal following the announcement of the contentious change. McIlroy managed to recover from a shaky start at the Masters, in which some critics suggested he made an "inexcusable" mistake before clinching the first Green Jacket in a tense playoff against Justin Rose. The 35-year-old also joined the elite club of players who have completed the career Grand Slam in doing so, becoming the first man to achieve the feat since Tiger Woods in 2000. While there could be several reasons for McIlroy's rocky start, Golf Channel analyst Paul McGinley proposed an intriguing theory: Akshay Bhatia took too long, which threw the star off his game. However, the new rangefinder rules being tested could revolutionise the pace of play. "I think he got distracted," McGinley said at the time, adding: "It took him a long time to play that pitch shot. His playing partner, Akshay Bhatia, put his second in the water. He took ages to play his shot - he took about 10 practice swings. "He is such a quick player - he wants to get on with hit. He got distracted. I don't blame Bhatia or the players walking off at 16. For a player who likes to play quickly, it was a drop in concentration. And that is what great champions don't do. And I am sure that the 17th was a legacy of it." During the Players Championship, it was made public that the Tour would allow players to utilise rangefinders with a "distance-only" setting. The introduction of this technology will commence at the RBC Heritage and Corales Puntacana events and wrap up with the Truist Championship and Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic, according to Golf Digest. Any player caught using functions beyond "distance-only" mode will be hit with a two-stroke penalty on the first occasion, while a second breach comes with a harsher consequence: automatic elimination from the contest. When queried prior to Pebble Beach on his thoughts about improving pace of play, Northern Irish golf sensation McIlroy frankly confessed he had "no idea" how to remedy the issue. "Courses are becoming - at Torrey Pines last week, courses are becoming more difficult," he said at the time, per GOLF.com. "You have those wind speeds combined with the green speeds. Even over a two-footer, you're wanting to mark it and reset and concentrate over it and whatever. This isn't a new problem. This has been around forever, but slow play was also around when people seemingly loved golf. "I don't know what the answer is. There's a lot of different answers, but not every answer is going to - is not going to make everyone happy. I could say smaller fields. Smaller fields would help pace of play, but that takes away playing opportunities from people, and that's going to piss some people off. "The other thing is when we play in this time of the year, the tee times have to be a little bit tighter together so that they can get everyone through with daylight and everything. If you could be able to space the tee times out a little bit more, that would hopefully make things flow a little bit better. "Nowadays, most people go for par 5s in two, so you've got to wait on that. You've got longer par 3s. There are a lot of different things that go into it. I don't know. It seems like it's - you can maybe improve it by 15 or 20 minutes, but that's still a five-and-a-half hour round into a five-hour and 15 round, so is that really improving it enough to make a huge change? I don't know."