Woods - damage to a green (Getty Images)
WOODS CLEARED BY RULES INQUIRY
For the second major running Tiger Woods was the subject of a rules inquiry. But once again no penalty was imposed.
On missing a putt on the ninth green Woods scraped the surface of the green
with his putter and after holing out he made an effort to repair the damage he
had caused.
The etiquette of golf states that "players should avoid causing damage to the
course... by hitting the head of a club into the ground, whether in anger or for
any other reason."
The rules allow a committee to disqualify a player for a serious breach of
that, but Tom Meeks, the United States Golf Association's senior director of
rules and competition, stated that the one-time occurrence did not qualify.
En route to winning the Masters in April officials looked at a video to see if
he had stood on the line of a putt in holing out, which again is a breach. But
they found the footage inconclusive.
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