Running 2021 Golf Thread

I'm not a rules expert. You can just decide it was embedded and move the ball before a rules official gets there?

 

Who’s a bigger cheater, Reed or Vijay Singh?

 

The answer is yes.

 

Rory.
/carolinewazniak

 

And David Lee was there for the rebound

 

I guess in his defense he asked everyone in the group as to whether anyone saw it bounce and no one did, plus given the conditions on Sat.

However, picking it up BEFORE the rules official or someone else can look at it? Awfully smelly. (If I have the fact wrong, then I'll change my view certainly.)

 

Vijay Singh has been a model citizen in terms of the rules of golf ever since the 1985 incident in Malaysia where he was accused of falsifying his scorecard to make the cut. He was smart enough to know it would haunt him for the rest of his career and he knew everyone would be watching him like a hawk. And because of that, he's never tried to get away with anything. Really ... google Vijay Singh and cheating and that's all you'll find.

Deer Antler Spay, you say? Well, the Tour rescinded his suspension and released the prize money he had won while on suspension for that after it was taken off the banned list by the World Anti-Doping Administration (the Tour goes along with whatever WADA has on its list). Singh then sued the Tour for slander and was well on his way to winning (because several other players had used it without getting suspended) before Jay Monahan became the commissioner and ordered the lawyers to settle with Vijay.

The only reason the previous commissioner, Tim Finchem, suspended Singh is that he said he took the substance in an interview and Finchem claimed that was the same as a positive test. Turned out the only way you could detect the Deer Antler Spray is through a blood test and the Tour was only doing urine tests back then ... hence guys like Mark Calcavecchia didn't test positive.

There is no comparison between Singh and Reed. And as it turns out, Singh was good enough to win 40 times and three majors, and get into Hall of Fame, without cheating.

Now, as far as Singh being a royal asshole ... Then he's in Reed territory.

 

And remember, the tour has the best anti doping system in sports, because Hondo and Tiger said so.