Re: Tiger diskataan?

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’Howie Waller Jr. * 4 hours ago

The question regarding Tiger Woods during the second round of the Masters is not whether he made an illegal drop — that much is clear. The question is whether the tournament committee should allow television viewers to point out infractions to the Rules they see on television, but are not detected by the players in the group, and as a result, fail to impose penalty strokes on the player, and allow the player committing the infraction to post a lower score than he actually should have.

In my opinion, to allow television viewers to point out these infractions after the fact, resulting in disqualification, constitutes unfair scrutiny of one player over the rest of the field — and this is in violation of the responsibility of the Committee to conduct a competition in which all players are given equal scrutiny by their peers to abide by the Rules. To allow outside input in the enforcement of the Rules not only flies in the face of the traditions of the game, because every other competition in the game depends on enforcement of the Rules by the players — and the players alone — but to allow this outside input is to open the game up to chaos, as this is the same as allowing viewers to have input on a close play in baseball, or other sports where the rules are enforced on the field of play.

In my opinion, because the players in the group did not detect Tiger’s infraction, nor did the Committee at Augusta National, nor PGA Tour officials watching the telecast before he signed his scorecard — NO penalty should be assessed. This is the fair decision, because to impose any penalty on Tiger because he was on TV, but not Thorbjorn Oleson (or another player) for a similar infraction elsewhere on the course that also was not detected because it wasn’t televised — this would constitute unfair scrutiny of one player over the rest of the field, and to allow outside interference in the administration of the Rules.
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