Portrush, Northern Ireland – inside the note tent, Shane Lowry, his partners playing and rules officials revised the footage. Outside the note tent, a crowd had begun to gather, TV managers and reporters, and, long ago, players who would come out one and then two groups after Lowry’s trio, Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa. Around the corner, a growing scratch was collected. Everyone everywhere was trying to understand the same thing:
What are we going to do for that?
After all the news appeared – two -stroke – And Lowry came out a few seconds later, it is understood frustrated and still unsafe if he could have treated any of them differently.
Sportdo Sport has its rules of rules and, more and more, the uncertainty about the use of immediate repetition. But Lowry’s incident spoke about three questions of dark rules. Let’s buzz through ’em.
Camera? Or not cameras?
Golf tournament are not NFL games, where 4K cameras can capture multiple angles of each player in each game. Nor are tennis matches, where the automated line call eliminates a lot of gray areas. On the contrary, the action takes place over a few hundred hectares. The players walk a few miles. They hit the golf balls in strange places. And the cameras follow where they can – which is certainly not everywhere.
Questions remain, therefore, where and when to use reproduction to make rulings. Had Lowry not been on the camera (and even more specifically, there was an enlarged blow of Lowry’s golf ball, not on the camera) he and no one around him would have known him and we would have continued with our day. In the country? Investigation time. And just enough information to be dangerous.
“I was there with the official rules and I was not arguing my case, but I am disappointed that they no longer have the corners of the camera in it,” Lowry said. A camera angle can be more confusing than clarification – whoever has ever wondered what is a “catch” or if someone has taken a first down – and so is difficult for police things consistently.
Golf governing bodies have tried to address this; A The 2017 Decision of 2017 Limited use of video review “When the video reveals evidence that cannot be reasonably viewed with ‘naked eye.” “Their example quoted is a player who unconsciously touches some grains of sand in a bunker. If the player could not be reasonably recognized, it is not a penalty. At the beginning of 2018 Another rule Entered into force: Major Pro play Tours would no longer accept calls nor emails from fans who thought they would notice violations of the rules. Here too there is a gray area: Who noticed Lowry’s ball movement? Was it a tweet?
There is no clear answer here and the uncertainty of the Lowry press conference reflected it.
“They’re trying to tell me that if you don’t move out of the free eye if you don’t see it moving, it didn’t move,” he said. “I told them I was definitely looking down toward the ball as I was taking that practice and didn’t see him moving.” Case closed, right? But Lowry felt that officials thought he would make the ball move and that he had to be penalized, and he did not want to fight it too hard; The last thing he wanted to do was call a trick.
“I am not sure yet, to be honest, whether it was or not, but I had to receive the punishment because I cannot have my name to speak or throw around like this, and I just continue with it,” he said.
When do you break the news of the rules?
There is no good time to get bad news and breaking this specific kind of bad news-we think you may have broken a rule, though we are not sure-is a particular losing situation. Tell him in real time and you risk affecting his thinking and play. Tell him later and you risk playing different if he knew his result was two higher blows.
“I didn’t know anything happened until I walked the 15th road and then the official rules came and told me there was an opportunity for the ball to move to 12 for my second shot,” Lowry said. He would assume that he was in the first one for the tour – suddenly not. A two -stroke penalty would have it in a principle, which was raised like the cut line.
“Of course then I feel like I am in the cut sign then, which is not very beautiful.”
Lowry Birded 15 and he put forward his way to certainly finish inside the cut and reserve himself the weekend twice. After the round he admitted that he was not sure, nor, what should be the correct approach.
“I don’t know, to be honest. I’m going to have to get back and kind of think of this is now before i go tonight. Because obwiously you want if you’re on the cut mark, but i went from feeing like Felt Like 15 and 17 Were Good Chances, that I can push up that leaderboard.
“But yes, I will just have to get it. It’e’e’e a bad break. And keep going.”
This seems like an answer with a clearer solution, if it is imperfect: the sooner the better. If you think it’s a penalty and you will tell him anyway, you can also do this as soon as possible.
Wait – two strokes?!
This is where, in my opinion, golf rules seem to leave the limits of common sense. Because Lowry was considered to have moved the ball but did not replace it, he was penalized two strokes. But why?! If Lowry did not know the ball was moving, he could not know how to replace it.
The solution here looks quite simple: if you make the ball move, you calculate it as a stroke. Meeting another when there is no way you could know in real time? This feels like a double and unnecessary criminal risk.
In reality, nothing in golf legislation ends up being “pretty simple” when you consider the advantage. But why would he hit the ball on the ground in order to count as a blow, but hitting him in the accident accident like two?!
There is a reason that golf rules have so many pages.
Dylan Dothier is an elderly writer for Golf Magazine/Golf.com. Native Williamstown, Mass. Dothier is a graduate of Williams College, where he graduated in English, and he is the author of 18 in Americawhich details last year as an 18-year-old living out of his car and playing a round of golf in every state.
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