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Originally Posted by PennBF
An old observation was the extra player in a Golf Tournament and Base Ball Game is the Greens Keeper. I think we may have seen some of that in the Ryder Cup? I have been a Marshall at a number of Tournaments including US Opens, etc and I have never seen so many balls go around the cup and not drop in as in the Ryder Cup over the last few days. This does not mean it was intentional but rather may have been a mistake by the person putting in or changing the cups? If you put the cup in and push it down and fail to bring the edges up to meet the surrounding grass level the ball will do exactly as what was happening in the tournament. Did anyone else have a question about the balls not dropping? Since the impact would be on both teams it would not appear to be intentional?  |
If you are saying that the plastic liner for the hole should be level with the ground, that is not correct. Here is the PGA rule for golf holes:
"The hole's outer diameter must not exceed 4 1/4 inches, the depth is a minimum of 4 inches and the liner must sit 1 inch below the putting surface."
Sometimes, practice greens will have the liner level with the putting surface to make the hole more shallow and to protect the putting surface around the hole, but that is not according to the PGA rule. It is highly unlikely that the holes at the Ryder Cup would not be installed according to the PGA rules.