[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

I was surprised how close she allowed the club to get at all; even if she did not touch that tiny clump.

I was thinking the same thing. I always hover my club well above the sand in a bunker to ensure I don't have an "accident". In fact I do it sometimes when chipping and pitching. It's a drill that Paul Runyan taught me many years ago.

I'm on the fence about calling penalties based on video evidence. As has been brought up, how do we know that Brittany Lang didn't accidentally commit some small infraction at some point during the first three rounds. It makes me wonder how many infraction occur that the player isn't aware of over the course of a tournament or over the course of a season.

I knew a rules official once who claimed that he could take any professional golfer and call a rules infraction on him within three holes. There are probably a lot of minor infractions that players are not aware of. It's just a matter of bad luck when you happen to be in the lead or in a playoff and your every move is being recorded and looked at by television technicians.

I agree that they should have told both players either before Nordqvist hit her shot or after Lang hit hers. I doubt that it would have made any difference in the outcome, but it was the right thing to do.