Shane Lowry had bad luck as conditions continued to be the headlines of the PGA Championship.
The Irish found the eighth fairway, but he also found another player's pitch mark. From the outside, it seems impossible for him to be able to get some relief, but the rules stipulate that only this is his own sales mark, which is the case. The problem is that this is another player's pitch mark, so Lowry can't reach the green from just 57 yards.
The rules state that the player's ball is embedded only when the player has a previous stroke and is made: a part of it is below the ground.
The ball is definitely below the ground level, the only problem is that that is not his abstention.
From there, Lowry smashed his t-shirt with 292 yards can only push it to a green bunker, from where he shoots.
There is also a trademark outbreak “This place!” before crushing the problematic turf to pieces.
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If this is a PGA Tour, there is no doubt that the players will be able to lift, clean and drop the ball. Here we call it lies, and in the United States it is called kicking football.
But this is a major one, and the authorities are reluctant to make the ruling. Every player is asked this, needless to say they want to be able to get rid of any mud, and the world's number one Scottie Scheffler gives the same good answer as anyone.
When you consider the purest golf test, I personally don’t think it should be punished when hitting the ball in the middle of the fairway. As good as this condition, this may be a situation where it may have minimal differences in playing.
“But I don't think they understand that they've been learning how to play golf and control shooting and distance throughout their lives, and because of the rule's decisions, they've been taken away from us by chance. The point of view maybe it should be played today.”
Scheffler was in the wrong state of mud ball in his first round, which led to a 16-year-old double wave.
I might let me bother me when you get a mud ball. This may have cost me a few shots. It could be two on a hole, and if I let me bother me, it could cost me five, and I was proud of myself for staying there, not to let it get me and be able to play some solid golf balls throughout the day, while I was still posting a little bit of rating. ''
To his credit, Lowry did hit two levels of holes in two levels, but that was too much and he missed the layoffs. It turns out how expensive it is to break bad rules.
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