How long will it take the PGA to review ALL television footage and assess the appropriate penalties?
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October 31st, 2010
by golfswinghelp
Surely that’s what the PGA will do, correct? For all we know the winner shot a 26 over after all appropriate penalties are assessed. DQs for signing incorrect scorecards galore, let’s have it PGA!
To X-15: No, sport, I say enforce ALL violations against ALL players. Seriously, sport, take a remedial class in reading comprehension. You need it. Bad.
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So, you’d be more in favor of not enforcing rules violations? The violation was detected by the PGA rules official for that group and was not a result of it being televised.
I’m 46 years old and have had the opportunity to attend dozens of pro golf events, including a few majors, and at no time have I ever ONCE witnessed PGA officials allowing the public gallery to freely walk through a bunker, creek bed, trap, hazard, etc. while the players were actively engaging their ball in play.
Joe Steranka and Mark Wilson of the PGA Rules Committee should resign immediately and issue a professional public apology to Dustin Johnson.
there are rules officials watching the players but they rely on the players when they do something wrong that the officials can’t see, for example a couple of months ago at the verizon Heritage brian davis was in a hazard during a playoff and when you’re in a hazard you can’t ground your club or hit any loose impediments or objects while swinging the club, unnoticeable to everyone watching while he was taking his backswing he hit a twig on a bush and told the rules official and took a penalty and ended up loosing the playoff because of it.
All the penalties were given at the time they should have been. A violation happened and it was dealt with, we feel sorry for DJ but that’s part of the game. The only beef I have is that they should have kept the gallery out of the bunkers, all of them on the course.
I don’t know what’s worse, the way the PGA officials allowed the crowd on the 18th to envelope a player while hitting from a hazard they were possibly not able to identify, or a PGA TOUR player admitting that they didn’t even read the special posting put up on the bathroom mirrors and locker room walls so that they were aware of the sand situation on the course.
There must be statute of limitations of some kind the the PGA goes by, or some fuddyduddy surely would have begun the rerto-penalty task already.
The decision is already made. The rules were clear, and Johnson just made a mistake.
There needs no correction because the right ruling was made over the use of bunkers in the local rules amended to the tournament.
There will be no further reviews, and rightly so, the legitimate winner has been determined. By this rationale, no sporting event would last less than a month. That being said, i think the PGA needs to rethink allowing fans to tromp thru areas of the course such as hazards. My recommendation: areas outside of the ropes in which the fans can move freely are considered just regular terrain. what do you think?
he should have received a mulligan
At the end of the day all the players were told, in no uncertain terms, that all areas that were intended to be bunkers were to be treated as bunkers, even if these were “outside the ropes”, as with the case with Dustin Johnston.
It was the very first local rule on the sheet the players were given, and it was posted on large sheets of paper on the mirrors in the locker room. Dustin has only himself to blame, and to his credit he his blaming no one else. The conditions of competition stated:
“All areas of the course that were designed and built as sand bunkers will be played as bunkers [hazards], whether or not they have been raked. This will mean that many bunkers positioned outside of the ropes, as well as some areas of bunkers inside the ropes, close to the rope line, will likely include numerous footprints, heel prints and tire tracks during the play of the Championship. Such irregularities of surface are a part of the game and no free relief will be available from these conditions.”
This was stressed by the PGA tour officials as they knew the vast number of bunkers on the course (reportedly in excess of 1,000) could be a problem otherwise.