Fore please! Running Masters thread

This is the part of the situation that I find hard to believe. The best rules officials in the world are at the Masters, and even the most incompetent of them could look at that video and clearly see there was a problem with where Tiger dropped. For them to say otherwise is just crazy.

My guess is that starting next year, there's a walking rules official with every group.

 

The point about the TV thing that I really agree with is that there isn't a camera on every golfer, and with the Masters limiting the TV time, it creates an unfair and unequal environment.
Sure, golfers are supposed to police themselves, but unless someone on the course spots the violation (intentional or otherwise), a golfer shouldn't be penalized.
It could be quite simple. A golfer has a question about something, he checks with an official for a ruling, and he or she is clear, unless notified before the card is signed of a different ruling.

 

On the first day this policy goes into effect, the 18-hole leaders of that week's PGA Tour event would be tied at 22-under-par.

 

Would it really be that difficult to have someone walking with each group with a rule book and a cell phone to confer with a tournament official if there is a question about a ruling?

 

I didn't even realize Langer was in this tournament.

 

Does Tim Finchem want to hire 50 people to work as rules officials every week? Probably not.

 

They'd still be 32 shots behind Kim Jong Il.

 

Tim Finchem wouldn't be paying them. All the PGA has to do is tell each tour stop that if they want to remain a tour stop they'll have to pay for the officials.

As for the majors, none of them are PGA events to that's not PGA's problem.

 

I thought that was the case already at the Masters. It's a smaller field than the regular tournaments.

 

If it's like other events, Most all of them are volunteers from the area PGA and golf associations.