A friend of mine lost the Massachusetts Open because of this exact situation. He needed to make a putt of less than two feet on the 18th hole in order to win. He marked his ball and moved his marker over one club head length so that his fellow competitor, who happened to be Dana Quigley, could putt first and finish out. Dana made a sixty foot putt to capture second place by himself. In all the excitement, my friend forgot to replace his marker back to it's original position. They must have changed the rule because back then, (I think it was 1983) the penalty for playing from a wrong place was disqualification. They made and exception because of the circumstances and there was a playoff which Dana won.
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