PGA Tour Rules Change: Armchair Whistleblowers Need to Get a Life

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Published: April 30, 2011

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On Masters Thursday a few weeks ago, the USGA and the R&A (golf’s governing bodies) snuck a rule change by the golf world that was long overdue. Golf considers itself a “gentleperson’s” (at TwoGuysTalkingSports we are non-discriminatory) game, and the individual players are tasked with the ethical duty (my law school friends are vomiting right now) to call penalties on themselves or other players in the group.

Golf can teach many lessons about life. I learned one in my first ever school match, when in a fit of rage I swung my 9-iron at a walnut in a sandtrap. Some little prick had the audacity to tell me that I had to add two strokes to the nine I had taken on the hole. At the time I was furious at the kid, but he was right, and eventually I just realized I was mad at myself for losing my cool.

But often times golfers, professionals and amateurs alike, break the Rules of Golf. It may be for something as little a ball moving after you start your swing, or it may something as blatant as hitting the wrong ball. But since the invention of the television, your regular average Joe sitting on his bean bag naked eating Cheetos can watch a PGA Tour event, see a player violate a rule, and call in a penalty on a professional golfer. Often times, this has disastrous results, and I say that these people need to get a life.

Earlier this season, Venezuelan ladies’ man Camillo Villegas was disqualified from a tournament in Hawaii when 4,700 miles away, Florida resident Dave Andrews saw him flick away some loose pieces of grass as his ball rolled down a slope back toward him. Not knowing the rules (which is a different issue altogether), Villegas violated a Rule of Golf stating that when a ball is moving you can't move anything that may be in it's way, traditionally a one-shot penalty. After his round, Villegas signed his scorecard, the official end of a player’s round.

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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