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To: Baynative
Leave it to John Ziegler - champion of those who hate the media (and also a decent player):

He breaks it all down for us

16 posted on 05/12/2013 10:35:35 PM PDT by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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Zeigler make a good case based on TV review, but he wasn't there. As I said the hardest decisions are the ones that have so many subjective recalls of the shot and that's why the official's first responsibility is to get the story from the players involved.

Below the Zeigler video is the following comment from a man who was standing on the tee box>
johndim11 2 hours ago
I was on the 14th when Tiger hit this tee shot. I was standing almost directly behind him about 3 people deep. The shot he hit was a very bad hook. I saw the video footage and the camera angles are horrible. The shot started out going towards the right side of the fairway and hooked sharply and landed about 7-10 left of the water line. The drop Tiger took was about 25 yards behind where the ball entered the water. I'm not a Tiger fan, so I am not making excuses for him, the drop was legal.

I wasn't there, so I can only comment on what I think" I see.
1. Aerial camera angles distort ball flight images, A LOT.
2. I like Mark Rolfing, but commentators quite often talk to fill the air and don't always have the best vision of what is happening. Many times you hear them say the ball is pushed, or going right or left, than it lands in the middle.

Other aerial camera shots showed shots that were ripped straight down the middle that looked like they were over the water immediately. In the end, the decision stands and Tiger is always going to cause controversy because of who he is. That's just a fact of life.

32 posted on 05/13/2013 8:01:04 AM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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