Keegan Bradley hits his drive on Monday on the fifteenth gap at TPC Sawgrass.
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Keegan Bradley, within the second, mentioned it angered him. Two days later, he sounded extra pissed off.
Hit with a two-stroke penalty after confusion over a rule throughout Saturday’s second spherical on the Gamers Championship, Bradley lashed out at officers on Monday because the infraction turned magnified throughout the closing spherical. After his twelfth gap at TPC Sawgrass, Bradley was tied for the lead, earlier than ending 4 again.
“Effectively, first off, I believe the USGA must smarten up and alter that rule,” Bradley mentioned afterward. “It’s so foolish. They attempt to make the foundations simpler, and so they by no means get it proper.”
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At challenge was how Bradley proceeded after he put his mark down on the sixteenth inexperienced, when wind moved his ball. Bradley believed he was to play from the place his mark was. However, as a result of he hadn’t picked up his ball earlier than it was blown, he ought to have performed from the brand new spot, in line with Rule 13.1d (2).
On the 2nd gap (Bradley began on the again 9), guidelines official Gary Younger instructed Bradley of the infraction, and his par 5 turned a double-bogey 7.
“I put the coin down, and as I’m going to seize it, an enormous gust of wind, and it went,” Bradley mentioned when a reporter requested for clarification on Monday. “The rule really states it’s a must to choose the ball up, so the coin means nothing for no matter purpose that nobody — I’d like to listen to the USGA’s clarification for that. They appear to love to screw all the things up.
“However I’ll know that going ahead, and I do know plenty of the blokes I spoke to inside, that’ll assist them hopefully.”
After he was tied for the lead after 12 on Monday, Bradley by no means pulled forward outright. He bogeyed 17 and double-bogeyed 18 to complete fifth.
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“I attempted to inform myself on Friday — they instructed me on the 2nd gap, which was my eleventh and blowing 30 miles an hour,” Bradley mentioned. “I used to be three underneath on the time or two, I overlook, and it acquired me so pissed off that it refocused me. And I attempted to inform myself that possibly — I believe I performed the remainder of the holes one underneath. Possibly I don’t play these holes one underneath as a result of it was so tough, the situations. I attempted to inform myself that possibly it’s going to make me shoot a decrease rating in the long run. Who is aware of. Who is aware of. Can’t inform at this level.
“It was a fluke factor. I used to be saying one million issues needed to occur suddenly for this to occur. It was good timing, it was the gust — if I take one second longer or one second shorter, this by no means occurs. I’ve spoken to a bunch of the blokes. Not one participant is aware of this rule. All of us thought widespread sense says you place your coin down, that’s the place your ball is. I didn’t wish to break the foundations by shifting my coin. I used to be making an attempt to do the precise factor.
“This point in time, when you do one thing like that, it’s going to be seen. Thank God they did, or I may have been DQed.”
