Does Tiger Wood’s Latest Violation Show Disrespect Towards Golf’s Rules?

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Published: September 19, 2013

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In the wake of a third rules violation this season at the BMW Championship, Tiger Woods’ integrity and respect for the rules of golf are being publicly criticized.

The question is whether the game’s top-ranked player is simply guilty of a few ill-timed mistakes caught on camera or whether he truly has little regard for the sport’s sacred rules when they interfere with an opportunity to win a golf tournament.

Criticism always comes hard and fast at Woods, but the reality is his latest rules issue, and more to the point his reaction to it, do show a level of disrespect for the rules of golf and those charged with enforcing them.

That said, this incident is not the measure of the man who has spent more than 15 years competing at the highest level of the sport. Rather it's an unfortunate misstep that neither changes his importance to the game nor takes away from his significant accomplishments in it.



His most recent transgression came at last week’s BMW Championship. Woods was deemed to have moved a ball from its position behind the green while clearing a twig. Video caught the action and Slugger White, PGA Tour’s vice president of competition, assessed Tiger a two-shot penalty.

Despite watching the tape several times with White, Woods steadfastly maintains he did nothing wrong and should not have suffered the penalty.

"I was pretty hot because I felt like nothing happened," Woods said at Conway Farms this weekend. "I felt like the ball oscillated and that was it. I played the rest of the round grinding my tail off to get myself back in the tournament, and then go from five to seven behind. That was tough."

At least one former-player-turned-analyst isn't buying it and points to the video as proof.



The Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee said Wednesday he believed Woods knowingly violated the rules and deserves mor...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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