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Originally Posted by Wazmankg
I doesn't look good. I agree that you can't tell conclusively from the camera angle but, while the camera angle doesn't change, at first you can't see Perry's ball then after he tamps down the grass a couple of times you can see it very clearly.
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That's true, but who's to say that the grass blocking the
view of the ball wasn't a few inches behind it? It was a playoff and as such every single thing he does is going to be micro-analyzed so I don't believe that he would choose a moment such as that to improve his lie.
If you look at the very last frame you can see that the ball is sitting on a mild slope and that setting the club down anywhere behind the ball would move some grass and because of the slope, it would likely make the ball more visible from behind.
Also, he's entitled to ground his club behind the ball and if in so doing he causes some of that grass to "get out of his way", then that's what happens - there's nothing illegal about that. As long as the ball doesn't move I don't see any problem.
Like I said, if his fate rested solely on the evidence of that particular video, I couldn't send him up the river for what was shown there.
-JP