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Under the new rules which allow certain tour players to escape DQ

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What rules would these be ? Not seen anything that said certain tour players could escape DQ.

I would say the USGA and R&A would be very embarrassed if they made the wrong decision over the weekend, they were after all consulted over the possible DQ and ruled the committee decision to be acceptable. Are you somehow saying that the USGA and the R&A are somehow corrupt?
 

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That DQ was one of the biggest travesties going.
OK they didn't swap cards - but they were filmed, watched and they had scorers going round with them all the way. There is no way their scores couldn't be confirmed.
And yet because the numbers were written on the wrong piece of paper they bothe got DQ'd.....

I think they ammended Tournament Rules after this didn't they?
I could be dreaming though....
 

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An interesting one!
I think they would still be dq'd as they would have obviously broken the rules.
The change was after padraigs ball was spotted oscillating an ion on HD and him not replacing it, he even checked at the time and all were happy except 1 tv punter.
 

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An interesting one!
I think they would still be dq'd as they would have obviously broken the rules.
The change was after padraigs ball was spotted oscillating an ion on HD and him not replacing it, he even checked at the time and all were happy except 1 tv punter.

Different rule.
 

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An interesting one!
I think they would still be dq'd as they would have obviously broken the rules.
The change was after padraigs ball was spotted oscillating an ion on HD and him not replacing it, he even checked at the time and all were happy except 1 tv punter.

Not quite the situation on Fridays Masters was it??
 

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That DQ was one of the biggest travesties going.
OK they didn't swap cards - but they were filmed, watched and they had scorers going round with them all the way. There is no way their scores couldn't be confirmed.
And yet because the numbers were written on the wrong piece of paper they bothe got DQ'd.....

I think they ammended Tournament Rules after this didn't they?
I could be dreaming though....
They did amend that rule to prevent it from happening again
 

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Would Mark Roe and Jesper Parnevik have been DQ'd at The Open in 2003 for not swapping scorecards?

No because they knew the rule and still done it, it Harringtons case and I suppose Woods case (which is slightly different as he didn't apply a rule correctly) neither were aware they had broken the rule.
 

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No because they knew the rule and still done it, it Harringtons case and I suppose Woods case (which is slightly different as he didn't apply a rule correctly) neither were aware they had broken the rule.

Roe and Parnevik were only aware of the rule breach when they finished playing - theirs was a purely administrative error, nothing to do with actual play.....
 

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No because they knew the rule and still done it, it Harringtons case and I suppose Woods case (which is slightly different as he didn't apply a rule correctly) neither were aware they had broken the rule.

The difference here was that Harrington genuinly didn'tknow his ball had moved until he watched on ultra slow tv, Tiger should have known that his drop was in the wrong place according to the rules. Quite a differenece I think!
 

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The difference here was that Harrington genuinly didn'tknow his ball had moved until he watched on ultra slow tv, Tiger should have known that his drop was in the wrong place according to the rules. Quite a differenece I think!

Absolutely, thats why I did say his was slightly different to Harringtons in being he didn't know he broke the rule when he should have known how to take the drop properly but Harrington had no idea. The only relation both had was the retrospective penalty of 2 shots for breaking the rule (we all have differing opinions on Tiger though ;) )
 

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On the face of it, the Woods drop decision was correct. The Committee considered the matter before he completed the round, judged no penalty was appropriate, then later revised the matter in light of his interview comments and exercised discretion they now have to amend the DQ to a 2 shot penalty. If this had happened last year, they could not have done that.

The key element seems to be that the Committee were able to amend the penalty because it was their incorrect decision earlier, not Tigers. We can quite reasonably debate whether they would have applied the same logic if it had been David Lynn or George Coetzee, but that is a different question.

As far as Mark Roe goes, the same rule would not apply. The Committee did not make an error in judging Roe's scorecard. However, a separate change in the rules allows an administrative error to be corrected.
 
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