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The location of the hole in question, on the 5th Green in the Eagle Crest Golf Club in Michigan.
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There is nothing like that as a “illegal” place of holes but United States Golf Association Does it provide instructions for putting holes in her Official Committee Procedures. You will find DOS and do in section 5e (1), which reads partially:
The committee should avoid placing a hole in a slope where the ball will not come to rest. When the green contours allow, the holes should be placed where there is a two to three -legged surface around the hole that is relatively level, so that the strokes struck at the right speed are stopped around the hole.
And when this principle is violated?
Things can become ugly. Truly ugly
Do not look farther than the round of the opening of the National Athletics Athletics Athletics (Naia) National Golf Championship in Michigan earlier this week. When the players arrived at Green in the 5th PAR-5 Eagle Crest Golf Club hole, they encountered a hole cut into such a heavy, slippery section of the placement that the balls left little or just passed the hole in danger of making a bend and trespassing the players’ feet.
A couple of videos of this sermon made rounds on social media, but the best test of the impact of the hole position was lapsed on the player’s score cards. At the end of the day, the hole had played on a large average of 6.97 to 90 by 156 players making double or worse and only 18 players making par or better.
As the field sailed this dilemma, the pace of the game also suffered. A coach relevant GolfBeth Ann Nichols That in the afternoon, there was more than one spare hour for an hour long at 5. Nichols also reported that the green produced not only 4- and 5-pen, but also 6- and 7-deputy.
So what happened?
In a statement, Naia said: “We regret to confirm that an unfortunate situation happened at the Naia National Golf Championship. The hole in No. 5 was mistakenly put in a challenging position. We take this issue seriously and we have taken immediate steps to ensure that this kind of situation will not happen again. Naia is committed to the student’s experience.”
Unexpected from that explanation is how exactly the holes were cut in the wrong place (or if it was somewhere near the target site), and a Naia spokesman did not respond to Golf.com’s request for comment.
One of the videos from the round (See above) that has been circulating on social media shows a player who looks tremendously like the one who was approximately a 20 -meter hit catches the right edge of the hole, the horsesly out and rotates back to her feet. Aaron Watkins, Chairman of the University of Cumberlands, posted the clip to his food x With the title, “This was happening all day.”
When he was e -mailed on Thursday, Watkins said he posted the video because “these young ladies deserve to have excellent experience. They have worked all year to compete in a national tour and they did not deserve what happened. It took our two hours to play that hole with only 7 bands in Tee waiting.”
He added: “To be honest, everything I did to achieve was accomplished, which was to keep the people responsible who were responsible for a very unfortunate situation.”
Two years ago, in NCAA DIV. The III National Golf Championship for women, players faced a similar difficulty when in the third and last round an unsafe location of the hole in the 6th hole led to a barrage of large numbers. The tournament organizers ultimately considered the “unbearable” hole and canceled the round, although nearly two -thirds of the field had already signed their cards. (The tournament was also fighting immature weather, which influenced the decision.)
When asked if the coaches at the Naia event thought the opening round should have been canceled and reproduced, Watkins said he and his friends were not sure what to think.
“I don’t think anyone really knew what to do,” he said. “My team came later during the day, so most of what I heard was right, everyone played the same hole, so it’s just what it is. I discovered it was extremely unacceptable.”
In the second round on Wednesday, and with a more reasonable location of the hole in the 5th Green, the 5th hole marking fell to 5.28 and the average note with 18 holes from 82.27 to 79.43. In the third round on Thursday, the University of British Columbia opened a The 14-Shot Lead command with some players still in the course of this article. In the individual event, Jessica Ng by British Columbia holds a lead with a stroke, on six under, on Sharon Shan of the College of Art and Savanah design.
Both titles will be placed in the fourth round on Friday.
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