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**SoorgoBardy** · 09-05-2011, 01:23 AM

Yes, but it stops some tool from calling in on Sunday and reporting something that happened in the first three rounds, at which if found to be true, resulted in a DQ because the card was signed for those days. Now they just go back and assess the penalty, but the player gets to continue playing the event. This change is huge, and it is right.

You say that like it's automatic. It isn't. In more than 95% of the cases in the past, disqualification would still be the result, even if this decision had been in effect. They don't just automatically assess the stroke penalty unless the facts show that the player could not have been aware that that his action caused a breach. That doesn't mean that he was just unaware of the rule, but that even if he knew the rule that there was no way that he could know that he breached it. Read the examples which are posted with the decision on the USGA website. In most cases disqualification will still be the result of returning an incorrect score, bcause in most cases the player should have known better than to do what he did.

09-05-2011, 01:23 AM	#27
SoorgoBardy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 432 Senior Member	Yes, but it stops some tool from calling in on Sunday and reporting something that happened in the first three rounds, at which if found to be true, resulted in a DQ because the card was signed for those days. Now they just go back and assess the penalty, but the player gets to continue playing the event. This change is huge, and it is right. You say that like it's automatic. It isn't. In more than 95% of the cases in the past, disqualification would still be the result, even if this decision had been in effect. They don't just automatically assess the stroke penalty unless the facts show that the player could not have been aware that that his action caused a breach. That doesn't mean that he was just unaware of the rule, but that even if he knew the rule that there was no way that he could know that he breached it. Read the examples which are posted with the decision on the USGA website. In most cases disqualification will still be the result of returning an incorrect score, bcause in most cases the player should have known better than to do what he did.
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