FamousDavis Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:17 pm
jetdriver wrote: Kiwigolfer wrote: Player wrote:What really sucks is that tigers whole tournament has been de-railed by a horrible break on what was a perfect shot. He had the momentum of a runaway freight train and was looking a winner til that bounce. That bounce cost him 4 shots but also would have messed with his head. I cant imagine the sheer frustration of all the hard work to get back to where he was when that ball was in the air only to see it hit the flag and roll into the water. You can deal with an error that costs you but when you fukt up the ass on a good shot like that there isnt any coming back. I also wish hacks like chamblee would stfu about it. He could only dream of being in a position to actually disqualify himself, he has no idea of the work tiger has put in to get back and cannot possibly comprehend what that would do to a golfers decision making process as he has never hit a shot as good as that in his life. When chamblee played hitting the flag stick would have beeb the least of his worries.
Missed the shot live but a friend who is as big a TW fanboy as you came over last night crestfallen about that shot and worried that his hero was going to be DQ'd.
I agree the shot was a tough break but reading about the drop and Tiger's comments it sounds like a case of blatant cheating to gain an advantage and also done knowingly. Unless he doesn't know the rules. Unbelievable!!!
Kiwi, You are right on the mark with this...in fact since I think at this point he should know the rules, I think he is just used to not needing to even consider them because he is used to the fact that they do not apply to him.
You guys still don't get it. It's unbelievable that you can't follow what happened or what rule we are talking about. First, he obviously didn't intentionally make a wrong drop. We know this is true. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned that he dropped it two yards behind in an interview. You can't say he intentionally broke a rule and didn't know in the same sentence. Despite what you are saying, it's extremely easy to play that shot wrong and break the rule.
So here is what happened and please try to follow along.
Tiger Woods took an improper drop for his 4th shot into the 15th green. He marked himself down for a 6, not knowing that he had broken a rule. A few minutes later, someone calls in and makes the committee aware that Tiger may have made an incorrect drop. They (the committee)review it (while Tiger is still out on the course)and they deem that nothing wrong had occurred.
However, after they heard Tiger's post round interview they realized that he indeed may have taken an improper drop and should be assessed a 2 stroke penalty. Under a rule adopted 2 years ago, the committee has the right to not disqualify a player even after he's signed his scorecard. In this case, they didn't disqualify him because they themselves had reviewed it while he was still playing and didn't assess him a penalty. It would be unfair if they had looked at the situation, said nothing to him when they had time to and then later disqualified him.
It's a relatively new rule and they were well within the rules to do exactly what they did.
Now, as far as the improper drop, he DID get penalized two strokes for that. The only ruling we are discussing is whether or not he should have been disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard. Since there is this new rule that dictates the rules committee can choose to not to disqualify a player, there is no rule that has been broken.
You may not agree with the committee's decision or the new rule giving the committee the discretion to not disqualify, but you can't argue that the rules were not followed.