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First sign of trouble for Tigger today: into the bunker at 12. Tough up and down from back of green with the pin in that half.

Aussies looking good: Leishman co-leading at -5; Day and Senden one back.
 
Tiger is a man on a mission. He wins going away.
 
Worst luck ever. How does that happen?!!?
 
Was going to be putting for birdie, now hes looking at a double bogey
 
JK, Tiger does Tiger things and says "Gimme that bogey"
 
Just had two strokes stolen from him. Not cool.
 
Tough finish for Tiger. Still in great shape for the weekend.

Day bounced back really well from going in the water as well.
 
Can you imagine Tiger being disqualified for dropping his ball very closely to his previous shot, but not close enough?
 
Apparently, anyone watching on TV can call in a rules violation they see, even on slo-mo replay, before the next day starts. This seems to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard and that's how Woods got "caught".
 
So a bad break on a perfect shot costs Tiger 4 strokes...crazy.
 
aiw said:
Apparently, anyone watching on TV can call in a rules violation they see, even on slo-mo replay, before the next day starts. This seems to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard and that's how Woods got "caught".
Yep. This happened a couple of years ago with Dustin Johnson (I think) grounding his club in what he thought was a waste bunker.
 
That wasn't a "bunker" /bitterness

Typically in such situations, Woods would be disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard.

But under new rules enacted by the United States Golf Association and R&A in 2011, a player can have penalty strokes added afterward when facts were not reasonably presented at the time of scorecard signing.

Fred Ridley, former president of the USGA and the chairman of the Masters competition committees, detailed the timeline of events surrounding the penalty in a statement released Saturday morning.

"After being prompted by a television viewer, the Rules Committee reviewed a video of the shot while he was playing the 18th hole," Riley said in the statement. "At that moment, based on the evidence, the committee determined he had complied with the rules.

"After he signed his scorecard, and in a television interview subsequent to the round, the player stated that he played further from the point than where he had played his third shot. Such action would constitute playing from the wrong place.

"The subsequent information provided by the player's interview after he had completed play warranted further review and discussion with him this morning. After meeting with the player, it was determined that he had violated Rule 26, and he was assessed a two-stroke penalty. The penalty of disqualification was waived by the committee under Rule 33 as the committee had previously reviewed the information and made it's intitial determination prior to the finish of the player's round.''

Interesting rule and ruling. Sounds within the scope of what the new rule is intended for, though.

And :lol: at the "he should DQ himself" crowd.
 
It amazes me that it's 2013 and golf still has a rule as hopelessly subjective as the one that requires a drop "as close as possible" to the previous spot. What people on TV and Twitter don't seem to understand is that by definition, that makes it a judgment call and gives an awful lot of discretion to the judge.

Not that ANGC helped itself out here. They shouldn't have assessed a penalty at all. They should have said there was no violation based on the evidence, which was within their discretion to do. Instead they basically said that it was a violation and instead decided that the DQ as a penalty is discretionary, when it almost certainly is not.
 
That 400 degree lip out at 8 was the final nail.

Tiger's face has gone to resigned-to-his-fate mode.

This is just not his week. No other way to put it.
 
Strangely, other than Day's consistency to start the round, nobody's really doing much by way of separation yet. Thought there'd be lower scoring after Watney's and Clark's rounds, but other than Cabrera now at -5, there's more being given back to Augusta.
 
Alright, then: -9 should do it for the jacket today. Maybe -10, but I'll guess lower just because.
 

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