[Timeout]

I don't believe there's any question of changing the ruling. It's the challenge to Stewart's integrity that bothers me. As I said earlier, Purdy is making a PUBLIC RELATIONS challenge, not an official one.

[daisyscarlett]

Purdy is making a mistake...Americans hate sore losers (think SoreLoserman, hee hee)and that is what he is beginning to sound like...I recall reading that he told Stewart that he was not upset (while they were awaiting the ruling).

Timeout, refresh my memory of when the Buick Open in SD was...I am going to search for some very nice comments made by our sports writers about Stewart during the tournament...I think a fan or someone did something that affected his game and he took it with grace and humility...and it was duly noted in our press. Do you recall what I am referring to?

[Endeavor]

Purdy is being a spoiled brat and this will not make him any friends on the tour. He's lucky there's no defensive lineman waiting to "welcome" to the next tee box.

[mountaineer]

I agree that this is a dumb "PR" move on Purdy's part. A guy who's never won on the PGA tour should consider discretion the better part of valor, in my opinion, and just "man up." So he didn't like the ruling. Ernie got a much more questionable favorable ruling the week before, as I recall. This is the way golf is, and I hate to see its gentlemanly character being eroded.

I also doubt that Stewart's friends on the tour - of whom I'm sure there are many - appreciate any innuendo of impropriety on Mr. Purdy's part.