OT: Lexi Thompson
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Unbelievable what they did to her a day later from an email to a tv commentator. When you have to watch someone mark their ball in slow motion to be sure it was an infraction, you should probably let it go. That made me sick.
I'm thinking of calling ESPN tomorrow and let them know that Madison Bumgarner balked in their game today. Hope they do something about it.
Also tell them you're pretty sure some of those snot rockets are getting on the ball.
The LPGA's twitter account is taking a beating. I could not find one single tweet defending the LPGA. Colossal blunder and hugely bad precedent. Now they have to address every single wacko emailing in a rules infraction they spotted as they rewound the DVR in slo-mo. Ridiculous.
What a tragedy, and mad props to Lexi for handling it with class.
Words cannot express how little I think of the douchebag who "alerted" the authorities to this situation. Seriously, how big of a zero do you have to be to even take the time to do or care about something like that?
Words cannot express how little I think of the douchebag who "alerted" the authorities to this situation. Seriously, how big of a zero do you have to be to even take the time to do or care about something like that?
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she's not bad, I probably woulda let it go...
It is seriously ridiculous to have a penalty assessed by a viewer, whether it be on the course or on TV. If a basketball player blocks a shot cleanly and is called for the foul, can a viewer send in the tape to show that no one was touched?
I feel bad for her and hope she uses this as fuel to go on a run.
I feel bad for her and hope she uses this as fuel to go on a run.
Don't think you can tie this on the LPGA - the PGA does the same thing with then men. That said, I do think they need to do away with responding to TV viewer notification of infractions - at least when it clearly appears that the infraction was unintentional or does not give the player anything close to a material advantage. Certainly they should not respond to something that comes in a day later. Rules are supposed to even the playing field for all players - but this does the opposite in that very likely there are a dozen occurrences of something similar to what Lexi did in every tournament - but she got 'caught" because hers was on TV. (Also in the way she did it - if she marks her ball and walks away so they change the camera angle - and then puts it back where she did it would have been the same infraction - but would have went unnoticed).
All that said So Yeon Ryu is my favorite LPGA player so was great to see her win (even though they basically ignored her in the TV coverage until the very end). Just hate to see it happen the way it did because Lexi deserved to win the tournament.
All that said So Yeon Ryu is my favorite LPGA player so was great to see her win (even though they basically ignored her in the TV coverage until the very end). Just hate to see it happen the way it did because Lexi deserved to win the tournament.
I suspect it may have been a family member or fan of one of the ladies trailing by a few strokes that turned it in. Who else would have the email address to contact the people they did? Terrible ruling.
