Golf game is full of strange rules situationsand in Sanderson’s farm championship On Saturday, viewers took over a rare real -time ruling game.
In the PAR-4 15 hole in Jackson’s country clubTournament contenders Garrick Higgo and Eric Cole Hit their drives in the front bunker right Greenside. When they managed to hit their second shooting, they found their balls placed together in the sand. What do you do in that situation? The players also needed a broader direction by the rules official in the country.
According to the information transmitted in the broadcast, Higgo was the first to play outside. His ball left a bunker trail before coming to rest. Cole then struck his purpose in the same place, and Cole’s ball followed Higgo’s path, pushing the Higgo ball into a more buried lie before it was immediately placed next to it.
The rules officer led Higgo to play first, so Cole was able to mark his ball with a tee and then move it a club length to the arm, so it would not interfere with Higgo’s shooting.
Because Higgo’s ball moved from Cole’s blow, after Cole scored, Higgo replaced his ball as almost as possible, where his ball ended initially – essentially in the position where Cole’s ball came to rest. After Higgo played his goal, the bunker could be rated, Cole’s ball could be replaced, and he could play his second shot. No penalties were praised for any player.
“I’ve had the opposite of (bunker situation in 15) before,” Higgo said after his round. “In Sea Island a couple of years ago, I was playing with Brian Gay at 18, he hit him in the Greenside bunker, and I hit him behind him in his tar of the pitch, which is the opposite of that, and I had to play it because it was already like it before I hit. This, I hit it first.
Garrick Higgo dives with 5 feet Birdie Putt at No. 15 in Sanderson Farms
For Higgo, the ruling caused zero interruption in his game. He hit the shot at five meters, then drained the stack for birds. Cole followed with his bunker shot in 12 feet, but lost the bird’s putt to settle for a par. Higgo currently runs two shots touring the last round.
