Lexi Thompson's delayed penalty

Everyone knows the scores. There is a scoreboard online for every tournament for the whole world to see. Why should it matter what a card in someone's pocket says?

 

Call it whatever you wish. It's inexcusable that a player who's played as much competitive golf as Lexi would make such a bone-headed move.

 

It's inexcusable that baserunners get picked off first base, but it happens.

 

Call it whatever you wish. It's inexcusable that a player who's played as much competitive golf as Lexi would make such a bone-headed move.

It's inexcusable that baserunners get picked off first base, but it happens.

Jim Marshall played a lot of football, too.

 

Nowadays it's called a paper trail.

 

Right, but the scorecard rule means that you double the penalty based on the random time that someone catches the error.

 

If you think about it, there's a pretty good reason why golf accepts claims from spectators, be they watching at an event or on television, and that is, you can make an argument that it discourages cheating. I can give you a thousand stories of golfers who've rolled their ball out of a bad lie onto a nice tuft of grass when they didn't think anyone was watching, or dropped a ball from their back pocket when they've been unable to find their original, only to have someone yell, "I saw that."

Is it a perfect system? No.

 

Analogizing the pro tours with what other golfers may play is silly. The games are not the same no matter how much people want to claim 'We play the same game. It's like we are equals.'

 

It's similar to when people say "they'd play for free".

 

If we all were honest all the time, the rules would fit on a postcard. Unfortunately, humans are involved.

 

Cheating implies intent. You feel it was intentional? I'm not saying it is not a penalty but calling her a cheater is ridiculous.