The drop.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/columnists/morning_buzz/12930832.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews_morning_buzz
Why wait to blow whistle?
Associated Press golf writer Doug Ferguson tackles the role of Sports Illustrated's Michael Bamberger, who on Sunday alerted a rules official to a possible violation by Michelle Wie on Saturday, leading to Wie's disqualification:
Should golf writers do anything when they think they see an infraction?
I came across this question in March at the Bay Hill Invitational, when K.J. Choi played a bunker shot to the 18th green. He left his first shot in the sand, then swept his foot over the sand to fill in the hole.
It appeared to be a violation, since players cannot test conditions in the hazard. Should that have been a double bogey instead of a bogey because of the one-shot penalty? I told rules official Mark Russell what I saw, and he went into the scoring trailer to speak to Choi before he signed his card. Turns out there is exception under Rule 13-4 for smoothing sand after a shot, provided it doesn't improve the lie on the next shot.
Bamberger's error was not in bringing up what he suspected was a violation, but his timing.
He was standing about 15 yards away as Wie's 5-wood on the uphill, 470-yard hole hit hard off the top of a slope and shot into an island of desert bushes.
When her caddie, 18-year LPGA veteran Greg Johnston, found the ball, Wie wasted no time telling fellow player Grace Park she was taking an unplayable lie, then taking out her driver to measure two club lengths and taking a drop. The first time, the ball inched forward, and she dropped it again. From there, some fronds from a small, desert palm slightly interfered with her backswing. She had 45 feet to the hole, the first 20 feet down a steep slope to the green. It was a weak, nervous chip to 15 feet, but she made the par putt.
Bamberger stayed behind and stepped off the distance from where her ball was in the bush to the hole, and from where she dropped to the hole. It caused him enough concern to bring it up to Smith the next day.
But if it bothered him enough that he paced it off, he has been around golf long enough to know that once a card is signed, there is no going back.
The drop.
it appears that golf is a game that is umpired.....BY THE SPECTATORS?!?!?!?!?
As said earlier, WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
I am glad I have never wasted 1 second on this stupid "sport" (if you can call it that).
I always kinda sorta thought that golf was a freakish game for FREAKS.
Now I know that I was correct....
Professional Wrestling is more of a "sport" than golf...