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Friday, September 03, 2010
This week in golf insanity
Even the young are not spared:
Zach Nash is a 14-year-old Wisconsin kid who happens to be a fine golfer. So good, in fact, that he won a junior Wisconsin PGA tournament. Problem was, he won it by violating—albeit unintentionally—one of golf’s most straightforward rules. He had too many clubs in his bag. And the worst part? It was a total accident, discovered long after the fact.
The penalty is two strokes… PER HOLE! I can just see all those hockey players coming forward that they used a stick with too much curve to it, all those pitchers who doctored balls, all those linemen coming forward that they were holding their opponents.
Imagine a rule in baseball, and you were brought up on this rule since you were a kid, that the manager must sign a scorecard to show how many runs were scored before he leaves the stadium. And one day, Lou Piniella forgot to do that because the Cubs just won the World Series. But, baseball being golf, and everyone knew the rules and everyone was brought up on the rules, the Cubs fans accept it as nothing more than a fact of life, and concede the World Series to their opponents.
Yup, that’s golf’s zero-tolerance policy, one that all those who’ve been nurtured by its rules are content to live by it.
I’ll accept that I’m the fool here. Sometimes, even fools are right.
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