Swinging practice rarely attracts much attention but in the second round of The 153th open championshipSuch a slide had the world of golf.
We take you to the native area left out of the road to the 12th hole of the 12th Royalwhere favorite for the crowd Shane LowryOne under the tour at that time and much at the distance of the leaders’ stalemate, he was preparing to play his second shot. As he increased the challenge he was waiting for in the thick, wet grass, Lowry placed his club behind his srixon, withdrew his club again and received a practical pace, washing his left grass from his ball.
One moment after the Lowry club went down to the bar, his ball always moved so little. Lowry, not noticing the movement (he said later), left his address, then went back inside and hit his intent with zeal – though not all of them effectively. From the contagious lie, he could progress his second shot only 144 yards in a bunker to the left side of the hole.
After this swing, the NBC/USA network was transmitted from Lowry, but soon after revising its practice by swinging in the form of an enlarged again. As the clip played, the NBC commentator And hicks weighed inside.
“It almost looked like this ball was moving as he got a slide here,” Hicks said. “You can see that there is a lot of moisture – yes, it moved. He oscilled again.”
Joining Hicks in the direct analysis was the R&A official Charlie Maran Rules, who said: “I think we will have to find out whether or not it is that shane actually made this ball move. The grass is wet, the ball may have been on a slope. We just have to work if it is” or not “
Here, Hicks intervened, saying, “It seemed as if her time was that there was no doubt that the ball was moved after he made this slide. I don’t know. It was close as you were told.”
A few minutes later, Hicks and Maran again received Lowry’s debate with Maran, saying, “If it is estimated that he made this ball move, then there will be a penalty.”
Hicks asked Maran about his opinion on what he came down.
“My personal feeling is that it looks quite incriminating,” Maran said. “But let’s just wait and see what Grant Moir (Director of R&A rules) should say.”
Episode called in mind a lower version of stock of Dustin Johnson Moving controversy in the ball This shocked the last round of US Open 2016 in Oakmont. In that situation, USA officials – with the help of video rehearsals – considered Johnson, the leader at the time, made his ball move to the 5th green, but did not warn him of the violation or penalized it until the round was over. (Johnson won with three.) USA later apologized For the delay of the ruling, allowing her to create “unnecessary uncertainty about Dust and other players, as well as spectators in the country, and those who watch and hear on digital television and channels”.
In this Friday near the peak of northern Ireland, the south Claret was not in balance yet but Lowry it Was Only a few shots within the projected line. A penalty – which would cost him two strokes – had the potential to be deeply followed. And yet Lowry was oblivious to the fact that he was in the midst of a controversy. It was not until he was coming down the road to the PAR-4 15 hole, he said after the round, that R&D informed him that his shake of practice was under consideration and that they want to consult him for his round. Apparently unheard of, Lowry made that hole, then put forward his way, thinking, at the moment, that he just shot a stellar one under 69.
As Lowry played his round, the fraud for the ruling continued in the stand. At one point, Maran, the R&A official, said, “We are not sure what the result will be and whether television rehearsals will create a Shane issue that leads to a penalty for which he will need to know before his round is over.”
After Lowry had collected at 18 and before making his round official with a colored signature, he examined a repetition of his shaky practice with a rules official.
Lowry said he felt R&A had already made the decision to penalize it, but he went through the response examination process anyway. “They’re trying to tell me if they don’t move (as seen from) the free eye, if you don’t see it moving, it didn’t move,” Lowry said. “I told them I was definitely looking down toward the ball as I was taking that practice and didn’t see him moving.”
That Lowry did not see any movement could be essential According to a rule created in 2017 This limits the use of slow movement reproduction in rules decisions. This rule reads: “If the Committee concludes that such facts could not have been seen with the naked eye and the player was unaware of the possible violation, the player will be considered to have not violated the rules, even when video technology shows otherwise. This is an extension of the provision in cases made with balls on the forehead.
But Lowry said though he did not discover any movement, he accepted the sentence because he did not want to risk critics to deceive him for trying to bypass the book of rules. “I can’t have my name chatted or thrown around like this, and I just continue with it,” he said. He added that the ruling is “difficult to take”, but that he will simply have to “dust himself and go there tomorrow and give it.”
Asked if the ruling felt unjust, Lowry said: “A little, but I wouldn’t go-if the ball moved and I made it move and it moved, it’s a two-stroke penalty. The last thing I want to do is sit there and argue and not take the penalty and then slaughter on all social media to be a trick.”
Lowry was also asked how it felt that the situation had been notified of the three holes after it happened.
“I don’t know how to be honest,” he said. “As I always say, I will have to sit back and think about it now before I go to bed tonight. Of course you want to know if you are in the cut mark, but I went by feeling as if I could make two or three birds on the road, which I felt like 15 and 17 were good chance Very happy that he was happy.
He added, “I will just have to get it. It is a bad break. And keep going.”
Lowry is at the same time for the tournament, 10 back of scottie scheffler leader.
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