Keegan Bradley on Saturday was hit with a two-stroke penalty on the Gamers Championship.
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The coin was not sufficient.
In a not often known as guidelines violation, Keegan Bradley was stung with a two-shot penalty on Saturday throughout his second spherical on the Gamers Championship after he marked his ball on the sixteenth inexperienced at TPC Sawgrass, the ball moved and Bradley performed it from the place he had marked it, slightly than the place the ball moved to. Bradley’s par 5 was modified to a double-bogey seven, and he completed with a one-under 71.
Afterward, Bradley stated he and his taking part in companions, Andrew Putnam and Cameron Younger, all believed they had been in the precise in the intervening time.
“Nicely, apparently the rule is — I believed so long as everybody in my group … and I assure many of the complete subject thought the USGA modified the rule to simplify it — put your coin down, that’s the place your ball is,” stated Bradley, the 2011 PGA Championship winner. “So put my coin down, the ball moved, an enormous gust of wind got here up.
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“I seemed on the guys in my group, and all of us stated, yep, the coin was down first, all good. Didn’t give it some thought once more till Gary [rules official Gary Young] got here up and spoke to me on 2, and happy with the best way I dealt with that as a result of that was powerful information, particularly with some powerful holes in entrance of me.”
In play was rule 13.1d (2), which states: “If pure forces trigger a participant’s ball on the placing inexperienced to maneuver, the place the participant should play from subsequent is dependent upon whether or not the ball had already been lifted and changed on its unique spot.” If the ball was not already lifted and changed, “the ball should be performed from its new spot.” (For dialog sake, if the ball had been already lifted and changed, “the ball should be changed on its unique spot (which if not recognized should be estimated), despite the fact that it was moved by pure forces and never by the participant, the opponent or an outdoor affect.”)
“Sadly when Keegan was on the placing inexperienced at No. 16 he went to mark his golf ball and And his ball was moved by pure forces,” guidelines official Mark Dusbabek stated additional on the NBC broadcast. “You’re presupposed to play it from its new place. He had not lifted the ball. You need to mark it and elevate the ball, take it out of play and put it again. However he had went and picked up his ball after he had marked it however had not lifted his ball previous to doing that, so he was presupposed to play it from its new place.”
