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Last Cybergolf Piece of the Week: What a Stupid he was

I just got off the phone with a former rules official who tells me he would have been aggressive about reminding Dustin about that being a bunker, but that’s 20-20 hindsight. In today’s piece, I call out the broadcast for misleading viewers, but also Dustin, a guy I covered from his college days at Coastal Carolina.

From the article:

Let’s get something nice and sparkling clear from the get-go: David Feherty and the CBS broadcast crew – who are the gold standard normally – were dead wrong during the broadcast when they tried to say it wasn’t a bunker, didn’t look like one, or as Feherty tried to say, “may have started as a bunker, but on Sunday was no longer.” Their own animatronics and aerials of the hole clearly show it as a bunker and as part of a larger bunker complex. It was sand, it had a lip, and, moreover, the rules sheet handed to the players before the tournament – reviewed with them by officials, and hanging all over the locker room – clearly warned, as its first ordered point:

“All areas of the course were designed and built as sand bunkers and will be played as bunkers (hazards) whether or not they gave been raked. That will mean that many bunkers positioned outside the ropes, as well as some areas of bunkers inside the ropes, close to the rope line, will likely include numerous footprints, heel prints and tracks during the play of the championship. Such irregularities of surface are part of the game and no free relief will be available.”

At Whistling Straits, they play golf by the old school rules. You play it where it lies. No exceptions. That’s golf.

Also, here’s a great story from caddie Todd Sunderland from my Thursday article about another zany rules violation that once cost D.J. Trahan.