Anyway, he wanted to drop less than a foot from his original lie, further from the green and in a striaght line which would have puy him on the fairway 1st cut, not the pine straw and sand. His argument was that he could drop in a line with his last shot, no closer to the hole which I believe that Tiger also assumed. However, both he and Tiger were wrong.
Again, I have no dog in the fight, but the problem is not knowing the rules and failing to consult an expert when needed.
Or learning that sometimes it is better to not do the interview. After all, as I said before, had he just said, I dropped it next to where I thought I hit the first shot fom, the issue would be over.
Or learning that sometimes it is better to not do the interview. After all, as I said before, had he just said, I dropped it next to where I thought I hit the first shot fom, the issue would be over.
Well interesting: I think Tiger thought he did know the rule, and he paid a severe price for not knowing it. I also think your second point scores points for my side and not yours, but I do enjoy your thought process. Keep in mind, the punishment should fit the crime, and for a rules misinterpretation, he has paid a net four shot penalty - the exact margin between his score and the leader. Remember, this all started with an amazingly perfect golf shot that ran into astonishing bad luck. A heavy price has already been paid - and as you said, had he answered the question a little differently, none of this would have even come up. I think a post defacto interview process is like damned double jeapardy.