Doh Noh!!

[rickg]

http://www.pgatour.com/content/pgat...wo-stroke-penalty-for-hitting-from-green.html

Unbelievable that he didn't know this rule.

 

[BTatHome]

Just read that it's shocking.

Almost as bad as the uturn that Tringale took last week .... very strange.

 

[North Mimms]

http://www.pgatour.com/content/pgat...wo-stroke-penalty-for-hitting-from-green.html

Unbelievable that he didn't know this rule.

Common sense tells you that hitting from wrong green is a noh noh.

 

[FairwayDodger]

Commentators on the clip didn't seem to know either.... Remarkable!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Seems a basic rule that msot should know

 

[Gopher]

Love the way he saw the divot go flying but immediately trampled on the divot hole that he left on the green... cos that's going to make it much better.

 

[John Boy Saint]

That is amazing! All pros anally look at a putting green for the merest imperfection on their line, then to have one basically get out a chainsaw to take the top off his boiled egg! Quite an impressive brain fart!!

 

[MashieNiblick]

Where's that double face palm picture?

 

[North Mimms]

Interesting seeing them replacing his divot with a new green core to repair it.

Amazing that it never occurred to him or caddie to ask about relief.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

http://www.pgatour.com/content/pgat...wo-stroke-penalty-for-hitting-from-green.html

Unbelievable that he didn't know this rule.

Pure basics, bet the head greenkeeper was mighty impressed as well at having to go and plug the green as well.

I was at SAOL the other week and some guy hits his ball from the 6th onto the 1st green, was about to play the shot and I asked him what he was doing, he had no idea of the rule either. It's simple basics

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Wrong on so many levels. Not knowing the rules and then taking a chunk out of a green. Silly boy

 

[Hovisbap]

Am I right in thinking that if he'd been on a double green, he would have been within his rights to take a wedge (and divot)?

 

[rosecott]

Am I right in thinking that if he'd been on a double green, he would have been within his rights to take a wedge (and divot)?

Yes, unless the committee had decided to split the green with stakes or a line to determine the margin of each of the 2 greens.

 

[palindromicbob]

Yes, unless the committee had decided to split the green with stakes or a line to determine the margin of each of the 2 greens.

and as long as the green was for the hole he was playing.

 

[Birchy]

Who could honestly play a full shot from a green? I think i would be screaming on the downswing

 

[ManinBlack]

I've mentioned this before. Years ago a mate of mine was caddying in the Open at St. Andrews. Bruce Devlin, who was playing with my mate's man, found himself on the wrong side of a huge double green. He proceeded to hit a sand wedge, taking a massive divot. The head greenkeeper was later seen in the car park letting Devlin's tyres down.

Good question, was this a "wrong green" under the rules?

 

[ManinBlack]

Yes, unless the committee had decided to split the green with stakes or a line to determine the margin of each of the 2 greens.

Whoops! Just seen this.

 

[Smiffy]

I cannot believe he didn't take 2 or 3 practice swings.
I would have done