Golf and the rules that govern it have again been made a mockery of, only days after an expedient decision by the game’s governing bodies to restrict the use of video footage.
Just as we began to feel optimistic, following the expedient decision by the game's governing bodies to restrict video footage, golf has another embarrassing rules farce to deal with.
It has been over two decades since the PGA Tour handed down a slow play penalty to the little known Glen Day. But finally, the game’s biggest tour has decided to stand up to the menace that plagues golf clubs throughout the world.
The culprit(s)?
PGA rookie Brian Campbell, on only his 13th career Tour start, and 38-year-old Argentine Miguel Angel Carballo, playing in the first round of the Zurich Classic, the first team event on the PGA Tour in over 25-years. Combined world ranking 910.
OK, not exactly steely stuff!
Did the Tour really pick two relative unknowns, teeing it up in the first round of foursomes play, to show how tough they could be when it comes to slow play?Apparently so.
To make matters even more laughable, as Campbell protested the penalty, making a fair point that the group were behind because the team's playing partners had been spraying the ball all over the place over the opening nine holes, the Tour ironically defended the decision by stating that, ‘’the policy is the policy.”
Although there have been no penalties since Day at the ’95 Honda Classic, there have been five slow play incursions in Major Championships. None have been quite so embarrassing as that slapped on 14-year-old Chinese amateur Guan Tianlang at the 2013 Masters.
It turns out the Tour’s slow play policy could get more ridiculous than we’d thought.
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