"No bother talking to you about this. The idea is NOT to allow the player to PLACE the ball in a perfect position to hit it .......... that is why they call for a "drop".
The distance is from the flag is incidental, just so it is no closer to the hole."
It just seems like there is an excessive anal rentention here. Did she use a different club? or could she have dropped the ball in the same rough, several more feet away, latteraly? If the ball had to be in the identical space as the previous one, which is what you are insinuating, then there wouldn't be such a thing as a drop. She was allowed to move the ball lateraly (left or right, in relation to the hole) as long as it was equidistant to the hole and in a relative lie?
I'm not saying that this is a stupid rule (although I am now) I am saying that to come back days later and to OVER penalize Wie is absurd as going back however many years it is to overturn the . . . .it was a stanford game I think when the "band marched on" in footbal. Or to take away the game from the Sox after the AJP dropped third strike. Wie, probably, did not DELIBERATELY sign a false scorecard.
After all this reason I offered (prior to the begining of this post:) about the "drop" and such, let me get to the the nit.
the majority of golfs rules are stupid, and deliberately arbitrary, and elitist. Other than the joy of walking in a beautifuly maintained setting like a golf course on a warm day, I see no real reason to golf.
Well some people really love the game:
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Four golfers who like to gamble a little wind up in the same foursome. The pot builds throughout the day until they reach the 18th green, where Charlie has a chance to putt for dough. If he makes his 10-foot putt, he wins $200.
Charlie lines up his putt, but just as he's about to take his stance, a funeral procession begins passing by on the road that runs alongside the 18th hole.
Charlie steps away from his ball, sets down his putter, takes off his hat and places it over his heart, and waits for the funeral procession to completely pass. Once all the cars in the funeral procession have passed, Charlie picks up his putter and begins lining up the putt again.
"Wow," one of his opponents says. "That was the most touching thing I have ever seen. You've got a makeable putt for $200, yet you stopped and paid your respects.
You really are something."
"Well," Charlie says, "we were married for 25 years."
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LOL. By the way, some of the rules are a little anal, as you suggested.