gee, i musta missed that. i was busy watching the lpga.....i could not pronounce the winners name but it was exciting......N O T

agree, very bad call
 

agree, I think it cost him the tournament.

it was ugly, a big duck hook left

Burns
 

Water under the bridge now. It was a terrible tournament for PGA fantasy golf, as I had my worst results ever. Very difficult course. Defending champion at 10 over misses cut. Wow!

Burns
 

He fell apart anyway, tied for 7th and not because of that hole.

All you Television rules officials. Unless you were there you don’t know what the USGA rules officials saw. This just got into his head and he fell apart.

So you all want to be armchair USGA Rules Officials?

Year you go.

Golf Rules Quiz Questions : USGA/R&A Exam Prep

Practice up.

Want to work at the US Open as a USGA Rules Official?

Take the USGA Rules test. Volunteer for some local tournaments until you have enough experience to work a PGA sponsored local event. Do that for 5-10 years and maybe you can work up to being an assistant at a minor USGA event, like the Four Ball or Amateur Qualifying.

Work as a Rules Official at USGA minor events for another 5-10 years.

After 20+ years, if you've proven yourself to be one of the 50 or so best Rules Officials in the USA, you *might* get the chance to work at the US Open.

Thomas Pagel, who was in charge at the US Open (& all USGA events), has been a Rules Official for 24 years, 12 with the USGA. He has a fairly good grasp of the Rules of Golf.

I sent him an invitation to join TOTV.

Don't waste Mr. Pagels Time and Ours
 

unless Pagel was one of the two who made the call..........we don't want words we want the two who made the call to fess up......they would be welcome on TOTV

Isn’t that the answer??

“an accumulation of water must remain present either before or after your stance is taken”

stance was clean
 

ball was not, evidenced by wetness of divot after shot

Bad call or not, Sam will still be going to the bank this week.

The rule states “an accumulation of water must remain present either before or after your stance is taken.”

It doesn't say anything about water after the shot or whether the divot was wet after the shot.

So
 

you take your stance with no water present at your feet, but your ball is sitting in a puddle of water! I dont think so, if you took a stance around the ball the water would have shown up, its not just your stance, its also the lie of the ball, and if someone says it was just squishy, then squishy denotes water.

None of the Golf Channel announcers commented on the ruling, too scared. The only comment was an admiration for Burns because he took it so well.......that implies he disagreed as well but backed off any critical remarks, for obvious reasons.