I know what you mean and I'm on the same page that what he did was DQ worthy, but I think you're reading the rule wrong. Even in cases of serious breach, there's no obligation to DQ, it's still discretionary. DQ is the right answer, but it then leaves someone else playing on their own tomorrow which is unfair too.
Do you think it should be allowed? That we should see golfers doing that sort of thing more often?
It's not allowed. That's why it was a 2 shot penalty.
I know it’s discretionary, I just think this one is a no-brainer.
Think it should have been a DQ as such an extreme example, and poor sportsmanship rolled into it as well.
I think the rule is not fit for purpose, for the reason that I said above (the temptation of rolling in a missed tiddler before it stops). Do you really want to see players running after shots and hitting them again rather than going into a hazard?
The rule already exists to allow for DQ, people are simply saying that this case should have been deemed to be serious enough that the DQ was applied .
That’s what they did. The USGA admitted late Saturday that the course got away from them and started watering the greens immediately after the last group played through. They realized that their counting on the weather forecast for mild winds Saturday afternoon was faulty and tried to rectify it as much as possible.
Exactly, it's the inconsistency that annoys people.
That tweet is exactly what I'm saying. Not DQing is a total farce.
The answer is obvious though, start planning for the Olympics since you're clearly the fastest man alive.
That's such bullshit. Koepka, Dustin, Patrick Reed, Henrik Stenson, Justin Rose, all in the hunt on Sunday morning. It read just like any other Sunday morning leaderboard in a major. Some big names struggled and missed the cut, just like any other major.
any player that manages that feat should get a shot taken off their score .Through no fault of their own? Saturday was the day the USGA messed up. not Thursday and Friday. Everyone played the same course.
How can you call The Open ‘a proper major’ when it is the major that most often creates courses playing different from day to day or hour to hour due to the weather? The effects of the weather aren’t just completely random, they are exacerbated by the USGA / R & A / PGA’s setting up of the course, just like what happened at Shinnecock Hills. The USGA made a decision to create very challenging course conditions last week but got it wrong one day. They came a good ways from 2004 where they had to make the unprecedented decision to alter the course condition during the final round itself, but still pushed the edge too much this past Saturday and the wind killed them. Saying that the Open Championship should get a pass on having such drastically different same round conditions because it is just the chance in the weather is a bit disingenuous. There’s always the element of chance, that’s why there are always inverted tee times on Thursday or Friday, the severity of such typically ameliorated by being the better players in the field.
how wide are the fairways this year? hopefully wont have a repeat of "carnastie"
Links courses aren’t really altered like USGA courses are. Carnastie was as much as to do with the weather than anything else. It’s the hardest course on the rotation, especially when the wind blows. The rough is quite thick in places where they’ve probably put some miracle grow on it but it’ll be a fair test of golf.
