The self-reported sentence of Davis Riley Rangefinder almost sent him home to CJ Cup Byron Nelson.
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During the second round of CJ Cup Byron Nelson, Davis Riley found himself moving away from the line between heart attack and happiness due to a wrong mistake with a rangefinder.
While finishing the second round in the morning on Saturday at TPC Craig Ranch Due to Friday’s weather delay, Riley landed on 5-nine-par, which was firmly inside the foreseen cut line. But all this changed when he entered 152-Oborr par-3 17.
“Entering over that tee at 17, I was assuming that Rangefinder was in the right mode and shot it, and two numbers came out,” Riley said afterwards. “I’ve used it enough to know that this is the slope number. Unfortunately, it was just one of those moments where your heart sinks a little, as if you were just throwing two shots.”
PGA Tour is Allowing the Distance Measuring Equipment During the extension between the masters and the PGA championship as a court balloon for Try and brake the slow game. But rangefinders can only be used to measure distance. All other functions, including the slope, must be deactivated. The ruling is clear – if the slope is enabled, the player receives two penalties.
“If you have the slope adjustment for this, no matter what knowledge it has there, it’s a two -stroke penalty, and another after that is disqualification,” Riley says.
So Riley did what every integrity player would do: he self-reported.
“It’s a game – it’s the game of a gentleman,” he said. “That’s just something, when you start with that, this is the integrity of the game knowing that the boys will keep it there. You have to have the same belief as the boys, what happened to me today, to have the security to say, hey, I shot this and was by chance on the slope.”
Suddenly, Riley found himself on the wrong side of the cut line, with seven left holes and pressure mounting.
“I looked at my boiler, and I said, I was like, man, I’m fighting. I’m angry. My head is revolving because I’m right about cutting and I’m playing well and I want to make a move, but then you get a handful in 17,” he said.
Punch landed. But it was not a knockout.
Riley responded as pro -experienced that he is and drained an eagle in his last hole to muscle his way inside the cut line.
“I saw in seven green, I saw the driver’s table, I saw it was 4th at the time, but I know that ending in two par-5 by both sides, I knew it would probably go to 5,” he said. “So when I got up to nine tee, I told myself that I had to pronounce. I hit a good car just barely in the rough and then judged a 5-Herkuri perfectly and had to put them about two to three inch away and hit that Center Cup. So I was excited about it.”
