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• mmyers0 478 Posts

  Sat, Apr 13 2013 7:58 PM

  dandycap:

  From all that I've seen, Tiger made a reasonable desision.  Who complained?  I'm willing to bet 1 million credits that the official on the fairway who didn't get his 3 minutes of fame on tv,  to tell Tiger exactly where to drop the ball is the cry baby.  --  just dandy

  I'll take that bet, since Tiger was the one who outed himself. Where's my million credits?

• TracyMax 2,361 Posts

  Sat, Apr 13 2013 8:09 PM

  mmyers0:

  dandycap:

  From all that I've seen, Tiger made a reasonable desision.  Who complained?  I'm willing to bet 1 million credits that the official on the fairway who didn't get his 3 minutes of fame on tv,  to tell Tiger exactly where to drop the ball is the cry baby.  --  just dandy

  I'll take that bet, since Tiger was the one who outed himself. Where's my million credits?

  Regardless, the whole thing was handled poorly by the Rules Committee from the start. It's cast a shadow over the whole tourney and some great golf by several other golfers. 

• WoodenHands 526 Posts

  Sat, Apr 13 2013 8:18 PM

  SeabrookFlash:

    I believe that Tiger has enough class and love of golf to DQ himself before his tee time this afternoon.  I certainly hope so..  

  Nope , seems he's in denial about his wrongdoing , "rules are rules " except when they're bent to breaking point to accomodate him , great golfer - undoubtedly , classy - not very .

• dandycap 1,830 Posts

  Sat, Apr 13 2013 8:52 PM

  Tracy:   They said it was a couch potato - LOL    As for casting a shadow over the tourney, ya got that right.   I'm hoping for Brandt Snedeker, seems cool, like the kid next door.   ---   just dandy

• nels61 26 Posts

  Sat, Apr 13 2013 9:03 PM

  See what happens when you make remarks before knowing the whole story.  Even those like Faldo who thought Tiger should DQ himself, once he found out the whole story. changed his mind and admitted to making a statement about the incident before he heard the whole story.

• Swingzee 1 Posts

  Sat, Apr 13 2013 9:22 PM

  Tiger's 15th hole - chronology of events as I understand it:

  1 - Tiger hits flag and ball rolls back into water.

  2 - Tiger places ball 2 yards further back from original lie.

  3 - TV viewer calls in to alert rules committee of possible infraction.

  4 - Rules committee says "no infraction".

  5 - After the round, Tiger interviewed on TV and says He intentional placed the ball 2 yards further back to avoid an identical shot hitting the flag again. Makes sense to me, but he is creating an advantage for himself. That's not cricket.

  6 - Here is where I get confused ... Rules committee re-evaluates, and says yes there was an infraction (2 stroke penalty), but we can't Disqualify him because we initially ruled there was no infraction. Either that, or there is a new rule that says you can't disqualify a man for making an honest mistake.

  The rub here is that Tiger sought to gain a 2 yard advantage, but I believe he also thought he was allowed to do that since he was gaining yardage.

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Sat, Apr 13 2013 10:37 PM

  Tiger is one of heroes...  I hope he doesn't win now .

  I always thought if you signed a wrong card you are DQ'd.... 

  Now saying that... ther is a clause in that rule... If you didn't know you were breaking a  rule... that's ok....

  This open up a can of worms..lol.. what about the poor bugga who had a 2 stroke penalty for kneeling on a towel to play his shot... He didn't know he was doing anything wrong...lol

  I think Tiger should have Dq'd himself.....

  Faldo had to retract his statement... or be banned from the Masters in the Future.

  -Roger

• xtabent 2,281 Posts

  Sat, Apr 13 2013 11:27 PM

  Just like with his ex wife, he had 3 places to drop his ball(s) and he chose the wrong spot.

  IMO, he should man up and Disqualify himself.

• BubbaCrusher007 1,567 Posts

  Sun, Apr 14 2013 11:02 AM

  I'd like to retract or take back a statement that I made about Tiger.

  I had said that I did not see any reason why Tiger should not be DQ'ed. Now I know about the new rule that allows for players little 'boo boo's'. So there was a reason for him not to get DQ'ed.

  That's great because I think TIger's great & great for the game.

  Onward & upward

  PS: The rules officials told Tiger that it was OK to sign his card, that he had not committed an infraction.  Tiger admitted that he made a mistake, paid for it, move on.

• GlassMan27 573 Posts

  Sun, Apr 14 2013 11:45 AM

  BubbaCrusher007:

  Now I know about the new rule that allows for players little 'boo boo's'.

  The new rule allows for disqualification to be waived in 'exceptional' cases. The only thing 'exceptional' about this case is that the name Tiger Woods is involved.

  BubbaCrusher007:

  The rules officials told Tiger that it was OK to sign his card

  It has ALWAYS ultimately been the player's responsibility to know the rules. It will continue to be the player's responsibility to know the rules, unless of course it's Tiger that doesn't know the rules. I knew watching it live that he had taken an illegal drop.... a guy that has won 77 tournaments, including 14 majors, should know the rules at least as well as myself.