re: TIGER SPEAKS!! Plus Did Masters' get caught giving leniency to Tiger???

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Anyone who thinks there shouldn't be a penalty doesn't know the rule. The drop is supposed to be as near as possible. He specifically stated that he intentionally did not drop as near as possible. That means he broke the rule. By the letter of the law he should be disqualified. The hd rule is meant for unreasonable circumstances of rule breaks that the naked eye in real time on a course cannot pick up. It's meant to protect ignorance of the action not ignorance of the rule.

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I did not say a rule was not broken. I am just saying if the on course official did not catch it, then a caller from home should not be allowed to report it and cause further investigation. So on your eyes, should the official now lose his job for missing it.

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The drop is supposed to be as near as possible. He specifically stated that he intentionally did not drop as near as possible. That means he broke the rule. By the letter of the law he should be disqualified.

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So if someone drops a foot from the divot, should they be DQ'ed? I mean, that's obviously not as near as possible. The rule language is just so fricking terrible that I can't believe it even made it into the book. A club length is so much easier to interpret and enforce.

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He specifically stated that he intentionally did not drop as near as possible.

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Dude he said he moved it two yards so as not to hit the pin again (Obviously said in jest). Plus you don't think the officials questioned him some before giving their decision prior to the signing of the card.

This only happened bc people freaked out on social media about dropping a ball a couple feet away in the fairway (obviously this wouldve been a bigger deal if rough was involved) instead of a couple of inches away.

Golf needs to tighten up the rule to state a distance and eliminate this problem. Based on your logic if he would have said he dropped 6" to the right of his previous spot instead 6" to the left bc the angle was better then we would be breaking the rules as well!