Yes, in terms of not knowing the tree his ball is in.
It isn't that the rules official agreed with him, it is simply that he had no choice but to take his word for it. There is a difference.
Why? We are talking about a professional golf tournament in Dubai.
Some players get a bit more of a pass than others, see one Mr T Woods and the one tonne moveable object that was so moveable it took 8 people to do it. And the golfing world gave him a pass, wonder why?
Ahhh, should have realised Reed gets his very own thread
Because there is nothing in the rules from preventing him doing that. The incorrect drop in The Masters is another subject, though that was discussed endlessley at the time.
I suppose it depends on how one defines the word "loose" and the phrase "reasonable effort".
That was for the referee to judge and he did so, really nothing to see there.
Indeed. The boulder must have been loose, for them to move it at all. And, if several spectators were only to happy to move it, and they could do it reasonably well, I guess that is OK. Presumably the rule doesn't define "reasonable effort" for an individual person.
I seem to remember someone like Sergio had to climb a tree to identify it, as just seeing it and the logo from afar was not deemed good enough by refs at the time.
