At the Nexo Championship of the DP of Scotland in Scotland a few weeks ago, 27-year-old English pro-Sam Bairstow withdrew after the first round in mysterious circumstances. Bairstow had signed for a 5 in 14th hole International Trump Golf Links’ The old course when he, in fact, had made a 7. When the mistake was brought to Bairstow’s attention-it was as he would sign for one over 73 he disqualified himself.
Scoring errors in the highest ranks of the game are unusual though certainly not unprecedented; Among the many other examples of gaffe, Jordan Spieth was dq’ed From the Invitational Genesis last year when, after his second round, he signed for a noise in Par-3 4 instead of a par. (“I take full responsibility,” he later tweet.) According to reporting At that time, the wrong Bairstow calculation was caused by a temporary blow he had hit in 14, but exactly what had emerged was unclear.
But on Friday a video that was taken and separated from TELEGRAPH‘S James Corrigan Discard the new light on the Bairstow crash.
The video of the phone, shot by a fan, Bairstow shows, standing in a strict stretch on the 14th hole, with his ball too above his feet and tried at the rough top. As Bairstow prepares to play its purpose, its ball clearly moves, falling into a worse lie in the long grass.
Given the actions of Bairstow seemingly that they had made the ball move, under Golf rules He should have replaced the ball in his original resting place and accept a penalty with a blow. He didn’t. He played from the new ball rest and did what he thought was a Bogey 5.
According to Corrigan’s reportingThe fan shared the Bairstow video with PD Tour officials, who questioned Bairstow for the incident after his round. Bairstow, who ranks 210th in the world, first denied any wrongdoing, Corrigan reported, but when he appeared with the images he accepted and later dq’ed himself.
This may have been the end of the story, but it was not, because, Corrigan reported, the video began circulating between players and caddies, who were no one very impressed by the seemingly deliberate negligence of Bairstow for the rules.
This anxiety caused a hearing from the DP World Tour, who, the tournament said in a statement, found Bairstow “to be contrary to the DP’s Tour Tour Code and sanctioned it accordingly. The player has a review period to appeal the sanction.”
The tournament did not reveal the sanction, but Corrigan reported that Bairstow was fined with a 25,000 €–maximum tour.
You can read the full TELEGRAPH report here.
