another dodgy ruling?

[viscount17]

just watching the golf from Muirfield Village.

Schwartzel was given a drop 'because he thought he might catch the hole surrounding a sprinkler head and injure himself' he said the stroke he needed to play meant coming down on the ball though none of the commentators thought he would; 200 odd yards so a sweeoing shot.
Oosterhouse said it's within the rules.

So next time I'm in a bunker with stones, or sitting behind an embedded flint, I can claim a drop and get one - I don't think so.

 

[LanDog]

Have you heard Mark Roe go on about it afterwards having a go at Nick Faldo for questioning it, Roe is a dick

 

[viscount17]

and Roe's argument was that he 'might' get a bad strike not that the strike he had to make odds on to cause injury.

I was trying to find a way to email them.

opened a real can of worms now. oh, the grounds hard, I might hurt my wrist.

gone off Schwartzel - wuss!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Defintely looked a poor call but was it just me or did the rules guy seems totally out of his depth and scared to make a decision one way or another.

 

[Dodger]

I agree with Roe.......Faldo and Roe two dicks together but on this occasion Faldo is the biggest one.

 

[LanDog]

Defintely looked a poor call but was it just me or did the rules guy seems totally out of his depth and scared to make a decision one way or another.

Definately it seemed like a first day on the job he didn't even make an arguement against moving the ball

 

[LanDog]

I agree with Roe.......Faldo and Roe two dicks together but on this occasion Faldo is the biggest one.

I agree with Faldo there is a tiny chance of something going wrong and I think Charl took full advantage of the ruling to his benefit, something just didn't click with me on the decision

 

[Dodger]

Put it this way if I thought there was a chance of clipping the sprinkler and there was no such ruling I would have obviously tried to play it but with a ruling there to help me out then taking the drop that is available well within my rights then it's a no brainer.

Cannot for the life of me see what Sir Dick's problem was.

 

[viscount17]

I agree with Roe.......Faldo and Roe two dicks together but on this occasion Faldo is the biggest one.

so do I get the drop for stones in the bunker, or any other excuse I can conjure up?

hypochondriacs charter

 

[LanDog]

Faldo is just siding with the Yanks that is now how he makes a living after all, all he has to do is agree, agree, agree and he gets paid $$$$

 

[Dodger]

I agree with Roe.......Faldo and Roe two dicks together but on this occasion Faldo is the biggest one.

so do I get the drop for stones in the bunker, or any other excuse I can conjure up?

hypochondriacs charter

Not unless it's in a local ruling at the club,no.

 

[Matty]

Hmm, seems to me like the player was declaring his ball unplayable so surely a penalty drop.

If you ball comes to rest the 'wrong' side of a tree for you to make a proper swing as you'd intend without risking injuring yourself on the tree is that a free drop?!? I think not!

 

[Dodger]

The misunderstanding of the rules on here sometimes is just incredible.

 

[Screwback]

In this case he got a free drop because in the rules he is entitled to it.

He has hit his ball to place on a course where there is an immovable obstruction that entitles anyone that hits their ball on it or anywhere near it under the rules of golf they geta free drop.

If the referee had not given him a a drop and he had broke his wrist ended his career what would the title to this thread be???