rock... I'm not quite sure why it would give an advantage. When I first saw the replay I was thinking. wow looks like he was kind of quick to tap that in carelessly without even getting in position.. Another quick question that it brought to mind for me. Is there a rule about which part of the club you have to strike the ball with. I mean you can hit it with any part right. the end of it instead of the flat part of it etc? I ask because at first I wasn't sure about what the problem they had with him was, and was thinking was it because he seemed to hit it with the end part instead of the flat part.. that's legal though I assume.
It's all moot anyways now since they cleared him, was just curious if people thought it was a legal play. What I find more interesting is the fact that people can call in and call violations. I guess that's cheaper than having someone at each hole examing every detail
Lucky b*stard! First the chip shot with a 12-foot sideways break curls in ... then he gets to go home with her.
What a final round, one of the best I have I have ever watched. DiMarco hung tough and Tiger began to falter so it was even more exciting to have it go to Sudden Death. When DiMarco hit his 2nd shot in sudden death and hit the green and then rolled off you almost knew Tiger would do it. Great Win
Tiger is back, although he did everything he could to lose it during the last few holes. That chip on 16 was legendary.
That part is kind of ridiculous - and it's not equitable because a player who is not on TV will not be under that kind of scrutiny. The sad part is that it's usually some stupid thing like when Craig Stadler was kneeling on a towel and someone called in and said that it should be ruled as "building a stance". The only thing worse than some of the rules of golf is golf geeks watching TV trying to be refs. Does this ever happen in ANY other sport?
The Master's and the NCAA basketball tournament are THE best events in sports. 2005 is over....till the first week of the NFL Playoffs. Tiger's win is a prime example of Karma. I guess you guys weren't watching Thursday when the golf gods laughed out loud at Tiger. His second shot on #9 hit the pin and probably should have been a dunk eagle but fate spun the ball off the flagstick down into an impossible downhill lie in the sand trap. Then a slight, slight miscalculation of speed on his eagle putt on #13 tickled past the hole, gained speed and tumbled into Rae's Creek. If you hate golf, fine. But this tournament shows how golf mirrors life. You can be skilled and prepared but things will happen, positive and negative, that you just can't control. All you can do is to persevere, stay positive and keep trying. But hey, use some damn anti-persperant. Tiger had pit stains down his shirt every damn day. That was disgusting.
gutter.. not to mention how do these people even know who to call? who would I call to report a rules violation? I think the reason they feel it is okay in golf is because it's one of the few sports that you can change a call after the fact. I mean in other sports, you can't really change a pass interference call half an hour later because it would change other parts of game too, but you could go back and give a penalty in golf. Do the tournaments have someone at every hole looking for violations anyways? You'd think they would.
