Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1381922)

I respectfully disagree. First of all, golf is very popular. The difference with golf and team sports is that the players don't represent a city or region so most spectators, although they might like a particular player, really don't have a dog in the hunt.

I firmly believe that if So Yeon Ryu had a four stroke lead with a few holes remaining and was assessed a four stroke penalty because of an incident that occurred the day before there would still be plenty of discussion about it.

Originally Posted by rjn5656 (Post 1382004)

Bad for game. Time to stop viewers ability to challenge. If LPGA didn't assess by end of round, it should be over.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1381636)

Actually, how it was detected does not matter.

Once the officials are made aware of a violation, they have a responsibility to the rest of the field to investigate it and if there is a violation, to correctly apply the rules regardless of the source of the information.

There's a big difference between watching a television program and wire tapping. Golfers playing in a tournament are in the public domain. Reporting their actions is way different than wire tapping a private phone line. If you saw a bank being robbed and reported it to the police, would you be violating the bank robber's rights? Should the police consider that they didn't see the event themselves?

If you know that someone was cheating on their income tax and reported it to the IRS shouldn't the IRS investigate or should they do nothing because of how it was detected.?

In this particular case, under the current rules, the ruling was 100% correct. Once the officials have the information regardless of how it was obtained they must act according to the rules.

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 1381545)

I do see a small hole or mark on the video. But, what is really interesting on the video is that she picks up the ball and immediately replaces it without cleaning it or lining up the ball markings with the hole. These are the typical reasons why a player will mark the ball in the first place. So, it begs the question, why did she even mark the ball if she were not trying to improve her lie?

Originally Posted by Mikeod (Post 1382062)

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.

Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 1381933)

Isn't that speculation, without any evidence?

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 1382006)

I agree that they should put some limits on this as they are probably a lot of people looking for errors or intentional infractions by golfers while they are playing.

One inch off and she loses $150,000 according to Orlando CBS sports reporter Jamie Seh. Doubt it that was intentional.

Originally Posted by Mikeod (Post 1382062)

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.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1382114)

That's why I began my sentence with "I believe". I did not state it as fact, only what I think may have occurred.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1382113)

That's OK, but what about flagrant intentional violations that are reported after the fact? Should officials ignore those as well?