[Texas Wedge]

Originally Posted by rodney_c

Rules should be about stopping people from gaining unfair advantages.
Rules should not be about technicalities which have nothing to do with the actual playing of the game.

Rodney,

I do see your point and I have sympathy for Ms. Wie, but she made a mistake and paid a high price for it. Hopefully, it won't happen to her again...or at least not for a very long time. But I don't see the RULING as unfair...just the timing of it. I feel it should have been handled sooner, but I don't know all the true details as to how it played out.

If you remember, earlier this year on the PGA tour, a player was in the middle of his round and was told he'd been DQ'd for something that happened in the middle of his round the previous day (Allenby, I think). He'd raked a fairway bunker after his shot because he stood in it and his ball wasn't in the bunker but ended up in a greenside bunker...I don't remember the exact details. My point is, that he was DQ'd a day later in the middle of a round. If I recall correctly, he even initiated the discussion about it by calling over a rules official after finding out about the rule from his playing partner. Did he gain an unfair advantage? No. Was it a technicality? Yes. Was he DQ'd? Yes. Did he make a big stink about it? No. He even called the officials over to discuss it himself. Sometimes rules are not very friendly to the players, but it happens...even rules that are foolish technicalities.