Comments on Grouchy Golf Blog: DQ'd - How to Work the System

Rules questions will always continue to be an issu...

2005-12-13T00:20:00.000-08:00

Rules questions will always continue to be an issue in Golf, but any solutions should start with the players themselves. Many of the "controversies" could be avoided if the players took a greater interest in learning the rules of the sport in which they are "Professionals". Yes I understand that they can be confusing and up to interpretation. But a single weekend goes by when we have to sit and wait for rules official to help a player with the simple task of taking relief from a cart path or sprinkler head. People may feel it harsh but Michele Wie was at fault, if you don't want arm chair rules officials resulting in your DQ, then learn the rules. That also goes for knowing that you can not change clubs during a stipulated round and that you can not play with a club that has been bent. Regarding signing of the scorecard, I realize that the penalty seems harsh, but if you look at it from a different perspective and that when these players finish their round all that is asked of them is that they sign their scorecard and that they make sure that the hole by hole score is correct, (they are not required to add it up) are we really asking too much?

Personally I think Mr. Bamberger can buy up his ow...

2005-10-28T12:41:00.000-07:00

Personally I think Mr. Bamberger can buy up his own book. He won't sell one to me.

The ruling bodies definitely need to do something ...

2005-10-24T21:11:00.000-07:00

The ruling bodies definitely need to do something so that such an incident never happens again. But this is golf. Once you patch this leak, another one is sure to spring.

It isn't just the caddie who could have said somet...

2005-10-24T18:16:00.000-07:00

It isn't just the caddie who could have said something. Didn't I hear that Michelle had to tell the pro she was paired with that she was taking a drop? I would think that golfer and her caddie could have said something if protecting the integrity of the sport was paramount in the minds of the LPGA. but apparently Michelle wasn't the only one to have issues with the officials in that tournament. I think I heard that Annika Sorenstam also had a lengthy discussion with one of them during one of her rounds. This leads me to think that officiating in general needs reviewed. My biggest issue is with the people who wait a a day or even two or three holes to bring up an alleged rules infraction. You don't see this in baseball- just a little while back there was a replay in one of the playoff games that showed a wrong call was made and no one went back and changed the score.

If I was a pro golfer, I would make sure my caddie...

2005-10-24T07:01:00.000-07:00

If I was a pro golfer, I would make sure my caddie could recite the rules chapter and verse. You would think a caddie would be more highly motivated to know the rules and eliminate the possibility of a DQ because his 10%--a much slimmer margin that his pro--is on the line. Why would Wie's caddie have let her drop it with such little margin for error? You can bet he won't let her make this mistake again--if he still has a job, that is.

Once again I enjoyed the post and agree with every...

2005-10-21T14:46:00.000-07:00

Once again I enjoyed the post and agree with everything. I had to read the Church of Scientology thing to my wife. I actually ended up having her read the entire post.

I don't care what book he writes I just want to kick his butt where it counts, what a jerk and obvious (I just can't think of any word strong enough to label this slime ball). I won't even be buying the swimsuit issue this year. None of their shi allowed in this house.

I agree, it's unfair that anyone with an agenda ca...

2005-10-20T06:29:00.000-07:00

I agree, it's unfair that anyone with an agenda can actually change the outcome of an event the way Bamberger did. He claims to have done this for the "integrity of the sport," but what about the "integrity of journalism"? First and foremost, he was there as a journalist, not as a rules official.

Getting Michelle DQ'd gives him a far bigger story to write about, doesn't it? And all that exposure is going to help his book sales (he has a book coming out in a couple of weeks). How Sports Illustrated allowed this to happen is beyond me.

Actually, the "official" end of the tournament is ...

2005-10-20T04:43:00.000-07:00

Actually, the "official" end of the tournament is considered the cutoff for submitting rules discrepancies in the LPGA. According to interviews on TGC, officials held up the official ending of the Samsung until they figured this out.

I agree that professional golf should figure out if golfers will keep policing themselves or if they should have refs/umps/lawyers/whatever out on the course.