Tom Watson won 4 majors with Illegal equipment

ozzman · Jan 13, 2023

Can you imagine this happening now? What was the tour conformity testing process like back then?

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@SHistorians: What if I told you a Hall of Famer won 4 majors using equipment that was deemed illegal on two different occasions over a period of five years??? It happened and this story is insane!!!...…

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And an even more crazy addendum to the whole thing.

Did you all know this story? Maybe I'm just late to the party, but it is definitely shocking.

Jank · Jan 13, 2023

I hope that cheater never wins another major!!!

For real though, that is a pretty interesting occurrence. I had no idea, though I'm no golf historian.

Bernoulli · Jan 13, 2023

Ram Golf. There's a blast from the past.

golfinnut · Jan 13, 2023

I wonder what the deemed illegal grooves? And why were they inspected to begin with? Was it the actual model that was already known to be illegal? So once he set foot on the course, someone looked in his bag?