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Originally Posted by Bulls9999

All I know is what I saw and heard. People were not 'grounding their putter' for fear the ball would move afterwards. Those that were quite at address, would move away and back off. Back off for what purpose? Those that grounded their putter would mark/pickup/replace the ball...were you not watching the same tournament I was watching? if the ball was to move, are you going to suggest they would be penalized? if so, then why back off? They were obviously avoiding 'grounding the putter' as was discussed by the analysts who I would think are in constant touch with tournament officials as they are directly on the premises.

I'm just clarifying the terminology, not arguing right or wrong. I saw very little of the Open, as I was playing in a 2 day tournament myself this weekend, and I had other things to do on Friday as well. I've rarely known TV announcers to get Rules questions right regardless of the resources available to them.

Lacking an approved local rule there is really nothing more that the committee could have done but to suspend play if the conditions became unplayable.