Continuing the fun of the Golf Pride contests this year with the Memorial and a star studded field. This will also serve as our official thread for the tournament bringing the banter and conversation through the weekend.

The Prize
You will get a full set of any Golf Pride grips you would like including the new MCC Team grips. Head over to their website at www.golfpride.com and check out the full lineup, because you might just win, what the pros play.
How to Enter
Post in this thread who you think will win.
For the tie breaker, include in your entry, how many players in the top 10, will be using Golf Pride Grips.
If nobody picks the winner, we will choose based on the tie breaker.
Entries must be posted by the time the first players tee off.
Yeah because Barstool and Spiranac are poster children for how golf should be governed.
Because everyone loves golfs ruling bodies lmfao.
So the question becomes did they call it bc they knew it wouldn’t impact the outcome, or would they call it if it was a closer finish?
Those that play the game with integrity do.
Rahm himself said it should be a penalty.
Barstool has never come up in a golf discussion for me ????
If Barstool is the bar we are setting (no pun intended) on how golf should be played, I will quit the sport.
You and me both!
exacrly. They can have their “Bro Golf” with lax rules, nothing wrong with that. I play music and am as laid back as they come on the golf course, but tournament play is different. You have rules to protect the game and the field, otherwise it’s 120 PatrickReed’s out there teeing up.
Like the old saying goes, Those who can, do; Those who can’t, Teach. Those who can’t teach, commentate….
Completely agree. Some of the rounds my friends and I play when we don’t care about the score, we are certainly not following the rules. When we play a round and there’s money down, we bring the book haha.
i’m just repeating what you’ve said, but removing intent makes the rule so much easier to enforce. @wadesworld ha some pretty epic posts about the simplicity of the rules of golf and how the wording allows for more consistent application than other arguably more rational wording. this was a penalty. i’m very glad it didn’t affect the outcome, but that doesn’t change that this was a cut and dry penalty.
That’s fine. I’m sure he just chose to accept it and move on because it didn’t cost him anything. No point in arguing semantics or the general principle of it if your paycheck is the same either way.
I thought we addressed the intent thing to death already a couple of years ago and it got fixed. I guess it only applies to putting? ????
I’m super confused.
The ball moves in real time, not slow mo.
Jon Rahm sees it after the fact and agrees.
Rules official and Jon Rahm both know the rules and agree its a penalty.
What are the semantics. Its not a hi def super slow mo camera and call in necessary to see the penalty. Whether it helped him or not doesnt matter.
Whether its a stupid rule can be debated, but as the rules are written, its clear as day.
Finau’s ball yesterday moved a lot more than Rahm’s did today.
And I’m confused because of the putting debacle a few years ago and the DJ and Lexi Thompson issues that "intent" came into play on the rules.
Does the ball accidentally moving and not being a penalty only count on the green when they simplified the rules?
Last I heard, they don’t take phone-in’s anymore.
Can we get an "Epic" reaction emote?
I understand that but if I, half drunk with the air conditioner blowing in my face could see it, I’m sure they saw it.
NEVER again!!!! What’s sad is he ended up tied for my highest finisher
Lol. ?
The course looked flat out unhealthy.
The play was abysmal.
The lead was nuts.
Sorry to those who enjoy that kind of thing, but I’m not looking to watch a guys shoot over par and win. That’s a big snooze for me.
I would be very interested in seeing this. I would bet that these type of penalties happen much more often than we see, simply because there wasn’t a camera watching. If there wasn’t a close up camera shot on 16, would we even know this happened? I think not.
That doesn’t make it right. I don’t think there was intent and I don’t believe that he improved his lie but it was careless. He should know better than to press down like that in the rough. In regular speed you could see that the ball had moved.
Watching Rahm hit his shot on 18 he ground the club pretty aggressively there also. You couldn’t see any of the ball until he ground the club before the shot then you could see a bit of white.
The penalty didn’t impact the outcome which made it an easy decision to assess the penalty. I do think Rahm should be a bit more careful grounding his club in the rough.
I agree that it doesn’t make it right. The ball moved, thus the rule was broken. Rahm was penalized rightfully so. I was just saying, it’s interesting to think about how often this happens and the camera, or even the golfer, doesn’t see the ball moved a 1/16th of an inch.
It might be a case of players becoming accustomed to taking liberties using their club to slightly improve their lie. Up to now they certainly were not being scrutinized on it. I know I don’t mash down with the back of my club when addressing my ball in the rough. I’ll try it this week and see if I can see movement in my ball. I’m betting it is easy to see the dimples or logo rotate.
the most vivid example I remember is Bubba Watson at this very tournament in 2014 – on 18 he touched his ball, however the ball is allowed to "oscillate" in position; no penalty. the tiger woods rule
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That was what I figured they were going to ding him for when they were deciding whether or not to assess a penalty. The ball movement was inconsequential, but repeatedly tamping down the grass surely improved his lie.
In last year’s revision of the RoG, they loosened up greatly on what you’re allowed to repair on the green (rule 13.c.(2)).
This tournament ended last week.
Jon Rahm was the winner.
https://www.thehackersparadise.com/forum/index.php?threads/congrats-you-won-golf-pride-grips.8921232/