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Old 04-04-2017, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Mikeod View Post
Saw an interesting, but unlikely, point of view on another board. What if the emailer was a fan of another golfer and purposely waited til the next day to send the email so that there would also be the signing incorrect scorecard penalty in addition to the wrong place penalty?

Best solution is still to keep the competition between golfers and the committee and its officials. Spectators have no business other than watching.
It's entirely possible but are the officials supposed to ignore the information they have. What if a person in second place poisoned the leaders breakfast that morning causing her to contract food poisoning? If that's found out even weeks after the tournament, don't you think that the winner might be stripped of her title?

Of course she would probably be banned from all future competition and also see some jail time, but can the committee ignore information that is presented to them or that they learn about through factors outside of the event?
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