Tiger’s infamous Masters ‘infraction’..

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Not a question, but a link to a good read https://vault.si.com/vault/2014/04/07/the-drop

Not sure where this thread was linked from, but it was from someone on this site the other day…I just read it and found it quite illuminating, and on something I didn’t know

(More interesting for the light it shines on the Masters > rules perhaps, but I’m posting it here as it’s about an infraction!)
 
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A good read?
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Apart from its being well-worn history, the author belongs to the "never use one word when twenty will do " school of writing. Maybe he was paid by the column centimetre?
 
Colin L said:
A good read?
😴

Apart from its being well-worn history, the author belongs to the "never use one word when twenty will do " school of writing. Maybe he was paid by the column centimetre?
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I just read the article. Sure it was big news at the time and everyone knows what happened but I found it interesting reading the shenanigans that went on in the background.

@evemccc thanks for posting (y)
 
Having had the benefit of chatting with and seen the late John Paramor working, I'd take issue with the description of him as 'officious'! Otherwise, an interesting read.
 
evemccc said:
Not a question, but a link to a good read https://vault.si.com/vault/2014/04/07/the-drop

Not sure where this thread was linked from, but it was from someone on this site the other day…I just read it and found it quite illuminating, and on something I didn’t know

(More interesting for the light it shines on the Masters > rules perhaps, but I’m posting it here as it’s about an infraction!)
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Old news is not news
 
It's history and to some it was done to death at the time and not particularly interesting as a piece of history; but old news can be and in this instance clearly is interesting new history to others. Familiar history can be re-told, presented afresh in such a way that t catches the interest . A problem with this piece - apart from its breathless length - is that it's a contemporary article written as news rather than an historical account and so it's much less likely to capture the attention of those familiar with the events.
 
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Jeez some of the comments here 🤪

I am relatively new to golf and didn’t really have TV / Tour golf in my peripheral vision growing-up or when I was younger….so yes, this is certainly new to me

At what point was I claiming it was news, or a new point the journo is making? We are all on here far too much because we’ve all been bitten by the golf-bug…just a place to muse about golf and it facilitates our daydreaming and obsession…Like a lot of the internet, it at times sadly just becomes just a place to tell others that they’re wrong or stupid

Thanks to @KenL and others who ‘got’ my innocuous-enough post..
 
evemccc said:
Jeez some of the comments here 🤪

I am relatively new to golf and didn’t really have TV / Tour golf in my peripheral vision growing-up or when I was younger….so yes, this is certainly new to me

At what point was I claiming it was news, or a new point the journo is making? We are all on here far too much because we’ve all been bitten by the golf-bug…just a place to muse about golf and it facilitates our daydreaming and obsession…Like a lot of the internet, it at times sadly just becomes just a place to tell others that they’re wrong or stupid

Thanks to @KenL and others who ‘got’ my innocuous-enough post..
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Sorry if I offended you. I hadn't realised some were not aware of this topic. It's just that it has been done to death over the years and its continuous resurrection on various forums gets tedious.
 
I'd not heard this before. Found it quite interesting, although I gave up reading the Magna Carta length article and just Googled what happened instead. :LOL:

Morally I think the right call was made (albeit wrong in the letter of the law). I don't understand why it's a DQ to unknowingly sign for the wrong score anyway. To me it seems eminently more sensible to simply adjust the score by what the penalty should have been - which is what they did.
 
Orikoru said:
I'd not heard this before. Found it quite interesting, although I gave up reading the Magna Carta length article and just Googled what happened instead. :LOL:

Morally I think the right call was made (albeit wrong in the letter of the law). I don't understand why it's a DQ to unknowingly sign for the wrong score anyway. To me it seems eminently more sensible to simply adjust the score by what the penalty should have been - which is what they did.
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Definitely not the right call. Rules infractions are black and white. If you break a rule you get penalised, it is the only way that is fair for everyone. Any other player would have been DQ'd.
 
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Definitely not the right call. Rules infractions are black and white. If you break a rule you get penalised, it is the only way that is fair for everyone. Any other player would have been DQ'd.
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I said morally the right call. What he did wrong was a 2 shot penalty. But he obviously didn't know that when signing his card at the end. If his score can simply be corrected by the 2 shot penalty later, that all seems fair and reasonable and I have no idea why you'd need to be DQed as well. And I mean this for any golfer not because it's Tiger Woods.
 
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