Across four decades of playing the game, both walking and in carts, I’ve observed and developed some best practices to keep the game moving faster, making the four-hour round an easy mark to break with regularity.
Per rule 5.6b(3), the two-stroke penalty knocked Fassi to a second-round 77, and at three-over she missed the weekend cut in the LPGA Tour Major by one shot.
Family, friends and fans of John Catlin, currently 85th in the Official World Golf Ranking and a three-time winner on the European Tour in the last eight months, may have a new foe.
Because the early part of the tournament involves 16 groups of four players in a round-robin format, the loss doesn’t knock Ciganda out of the tournament.
Upon finishing, Daly and Calcavecchia were informed by a rules official they were being cited for conduct unbecoming a professional and subject to a fine. Needless to say, they were not too pleased about that.
One month after announcing a four-point plan – regulation, education, innovation and (reduction of) field sizes – to counter the cancer that is slow play in professional golf, the European Tour is proving as good as its word.
The 2020 Ryder Cup can’t get here soon enough, and if captains Steve Stricker and Padraig Harrington have any brains they’ll pit these two against each other in singles.
Australian Golf Digest
