The golf game is full of bizarre rules situationsand at Sanderson Farms championship On Saturday, viewers could see a rare decision being played in real time.
On the 15th hole par-4 at Country From Jackson, the candidates for the Garrick Higgo and Eric Cole tournament struck their training in the frontal Greenside bunker. When they arrived to hit their second blows, they found their balls nestled in the sand. What do you do in this situation? Even the players needed an extended direction of the official rules on the spot.
According to information relayed on broadcasting, Higgo was the first to play the tee. His ball has left a track in the bunker before resting. Cole then struck his starting stroke in the same place, and Cole’s ball followed Higgo’s track, pushing the Higgo ball in a more buried lie before setting up right next door.
The rules of the rules ordered Higgo to play first, so Cole was able to mark his ball with a T-shirt, then move a club length to the side so that the TEE does not interfere with Higgo shot.
Because Cole’s shooting moved Higgo’s balloon, once Cole scored, Higgo replaced his ball as close as he could to the place where his ball was originally – mainly in the position where Cole’s ball was resting. Once Higgo has played his shot, the bunker could be raked, Cole’s ball could be replaced and he could play his second blow. No penalty was evaluated at one or the other player.
“I already had the opposite of (the situation of the bunker on the 15th),” said Higgo after his turn. “In Sea Island a few years ago, I played with Brian Gay over 18 years old, he hit him in the Greenside bunker, and I hit him after him in his pitch brand, which is the opposite of that, and I had to play it because it was already like that before I had.”
Garrick Higgo flows a 5 -foot sneak out on n ° 15 in Sanderson Farms
For Higgo, the decision did not disturb his game. He struck the bunker at five feet, then emptied the putt for Birdie. Cole followed with his own bunker pulled at 12 feet but missed the Birdie putt to settle for a peer. Higgo is currently leading the tournament by two shots before the final round.
