This Year Is the Year of the Rule Breakers for Golf
Rules, rules and much more and more rules are listed in a neat little book and then at every golf tournament distributed in a sheet.
But the pros seem to be breaking them at every turn this year. We might as well call 2010 the Year of the Rule Breakers for golf.
Even people who are hiding from the public couldn't avoid hearing about Dustin Johnson's big error that cost his first major in this year's PGA Championship.
Yet just have a look at only after that what happened.
At the LPGA's Safeway Classic, Juli Inkster lost the qualification from it for using a donut which adds weight to the golf clubs, maybe it isthe TaylorMade R7 CGB Max Driver in warming up while waiting to begin a round.
That's a no-no and cost Inkster a possible paycheck.
And How about Jim Furyk. Who is the former U.S. Open winner started the FedEx Cup playoffs at the Barclays last week getting DQ'ed and that was just before the tournament began!
Furyk didn't get up early for his pro-am tee time after he failed to realize that the battery of his alarm clock on his cell phone was dead. Thus when he rushed to the first tee, yet he was still some minutes late.
If this was an actual tournament round, then it is OK, disqualify the guy. But a pro-am? The professionals that do play in it doesn't represent the entire field once the tournament begins.
In addition, Furyk isn't getting a leg up on the field with a competitive advantage by not playing the course in the pro-am.
In 2010, we can list too many examples like this, we might as well call 2010 the year of the rule breakers for golf just as the beginning mentioned.
This Year Is the Year of the Rule Breakers for Golf