Dustin Johnson and the invisible Bunker? Brutal!!!
WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT??????
I am all for the rules of golf and some of the obscure rulings we see but this one takes the cake. Dustin Johnson being penalized for grounding his club in a “bunker” is a crazy.
Yeah, the players were warned just as they were in 2004 when Staurt Appleby got bit by the same type of infraction. Sure, it was on the local rule sheet handed to every player in the field. Sure, it was posted on the mirrors in the locker room, but it would ONLY come to a players mind if he thought he was in a bunker.
This thing called a bunker was a dead patch of dirt that has a sandy, dirt like appearance that was so far off the planet and so small that if Refrigerator Perry was sitting there his ass would cover it! Dustin Johnson, even if he recalled the rule, still wouldn’t have thought it was a bunker because it had zero identifiable characteristics of any bunker on earth.
The true problem is that the rules official pointed it out to him on the green 15 minutes later. How the heck did the official know if was a bunker???? And since he did why wouldn’t he have pointed it out??? This was the 72nd hole of a major championship and he knew there was an infraction and if he knew there was a hint of this possibility then why did he step in sooner??
I commend Dustin Johnson on the classy way he took the bullet in the head. It’s like Lincoln saying “Hey nice shot John Wilkes Booth, you nailed it!”. I get the part that it is a rule and we take our medicine in the great game of ours but Jeez Oh Man that was horrible.
I could go on but if I do it won’t be beneficial because the damage is done. I just hope that the rules committee takes a hard look at this to prevent others from this.
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