Masters

[jimmy40]

Ask yourself one question about the decision.

If it had been a 14 year old Chinese player, do you think he would have been allowed to carry on? (Let's face it, applying a one stroke penalty for slow play happens all the time in PGA Tour events, doesn't it?)



He's been allowed to carry on because he's Tiger Woods, if it had been most other players, they would have been packing their bags by now. And not because they DQ'ed themselves either.

you beat me to it, they wanted that kid to miss the cut so bad they could taste it. They would have kicked his butt out.

 

[Rogah]

I don't think he knowingly cheated either. In 2011, the USGA amended a rule for things like this that penalized 2 strokes instead of a DQ. However, this tournament has their own rules committee and abide by them, not the USGA. The whole question is which of the three options did he choose to drop from?

option b is the one he should have chosen...b. Drop a ball behind the water hazard, keeping the point at which the original ball last crossed the margin of the water hazard directly between the hole and the spot on which the ball is dropped, with no limit to how far behind the water hazard the ball may be dropped.

Problem here is he did not choose that one.

Option B was not a realistic choice. The ball hit the pole, kicked left and into the water. If you draw a straight line from the hole to where the ball went in the water, and continued that straight line to the other side of the hazard where he would have to take the drop, he'd be too close to the stands and in an extremely poor position.

He really should have just dropped the darn thing as close to his original shot as possible. He was being too cute by backing up 2 yards.

This was a perfect storm for disaster. The Masters is only tournament that does not have rules officials with every group ... and they are the only tournament not owned by the PGA. If there would have been a rules official on that hole, he should have gotten a ruling before he went to 16 ... then it would have been 2 strokes or done.

That is a weak excuse. He could have gotten a rules official over for consultation if he wanted to.

 

[jimmy40]

Idiot Tiger fan on golf channel: Why was the camera only on Tiger?

 

[jimmy40]

If tournaments can now pick and choose who they DQ for signing a wrong scorecard at least make it a 2 stroke penalty.

 

[Tabascocat]

Cmon Leishman!

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Great day at the Masters!

Playoff coming!

Woods ended up 4 strokes behind so the penalty didn't figure into it.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Great win for Adam Scott!

The finish was awesome!

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

Great win for Adam Scott!

The finish was awesome!

Its always awesome when you dont have to see Tiger's horse teeth!

 

[honyock]

Nicely done Adam Scott!

Awesome back nine (and playoff) again. This is one of my favorite sports days of the year, and it always seems to deliver.

 

[jimmy40]

Nice that Scott finally broke through, one of the good guys.

 

[CowboyDan]

What an ending. Both guys played well on the playoff holes. Hell of a putt by Scott to win it. Congrats!