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Remember the final hole of the 2008 US Open playoff between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate? It was a par 4, and Rocco hit his second shot into a place where he was entitled to get a free drop. He took the drop, and almost got a penalty because of it:

Mediate took what should have been a routine drop. But the ball landed in the drop circle then rolled out. He went to pick it up -- and there were both Vernon and Davis to stop him.

"The ball's in play as long as it hasn't gone more than two clubs lengths, and it can actually roll forward and still be in play," Davis said. "This happened in a split second, and Rocco leans over to pick up the ball because it had gone out of the drop zone. I screamed at him, 'Rocco, ball's in play.' If he had picked that ball up, it would have been a 1-stroke penalty, and it would have basically been over at that point. That would have been horrible." The quoted section comes from this article: http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/usope...bob&id=4256164