Hope this helps:
“The divot hole precisely marks the spot from which he played his previous stroke, so he must try to drop the ball where it first struck the ground as near as possible to the divot hole.”
I don’t think Tiger “cheated” - he just made a mistake.
Two club lengths is the standard. No one, and I mean NO ONE, in a pro tournament, has EVER dropped their ball back into their divot. Puh leeze.
And besides, he was penalized two shots for this infraction. If you think he tried to “sneak one in” in front of 100 million viewers, please send me your banking info so Ican wire you money from my dead uncle’s nigerian account.