re: USGA issues statement on Tiger Woods drop

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a Champions Tour player, David Eger, is the person who called Augusta and pointed out the rules violation to the committee during Tiger's round.

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I'm with threeputt, I don't see where Tiger intentionally did something wrong, especially with where is ball ended up sitting after the drop. We can split hairs on his comment at the press conference (which I still think was in jest, yet people on this board have told me Tiger could hit the flagstick everytime from 135yds out yet somehow doesnt have enough control to short it, but I digress.)

My issue, from the start, is that a viewer instigated this review. A man, sitting in his house, watching TV, insinuated that he observed the drop and had a better view than the goddamn Augusta National rules official standing six feet away? And it was actually taken seriously? I don't care if Bobby Jones rose from the grave to call in, the idea that a viewer could impact the golf tournament is insane.

This, to me, was the equivalent of a viewer calling in during the World Series telling someone that he saw on TV that a guy was safe at first, then having the ruling overturned. Its really absurd to think about.