Lots of people talking in my golf circles about Hideki's chip that got the full close-up treatment on CBS. The ball clearly moved, but I would say that it came to rest on the original spot. The CBS rules official agreed with me.
This is covered by Rule #9.2, and specifically Clarification 9.2a/1:
As stated in the definitions, to “move”, a ball at rest must leave its original spot and come to rest on any other spot and the movement must be enough that it can be seen by the naked eye.
To me, this really highlights the inconsistency between the coverage of the leaders / big names, versus the journeyman tour player. If the same thing had happened to Beau Hossler, we would never have known anything about it. We certainly wouldn't have HD close-ups of it to analyze.
And Spieth's DQ for signing an incorrect scorecard is similar. He has a gallery of hundreds watching him, while Beau Hossler (not to pick on Beau Hossler) doesn't. Though in this case:
- Spieth should have caught it
- His caddie should have caught it
- Shotlink (and probably the walking scorer) did catch it, and he should have corrected it while he was still in the scoring area.
All of that said, I think DQ is too harsh of a penalty for signing an incorrect scorecard, when it's such an easy error to correct.
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