Canadian Adam Hadwin survived the Snake Pit (barely) to win the Valspar Championship by a shot over Patrick Cantlay. Â Hadwin shot an even par final round to finish at -14 for the tournament.
Here are the Highlights from PGATour’s youtube page.
Canadian Adam Hadwin survived the Snake Pit (barely) to win the Valspar Championship by a shot over Patrick Cantlay. Â Hadwin shot an even par final round to finish at -14 for the tournament.
Here are the Highlights from PGATour’s youtube page.
Inbee Park shot a final-round 64 to win the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore by a shot over Ariya Jutanugarn.
Here are some highlights for Park’s final round, where she made about 10-miles worth of putts.
Red hot putter from @InbeePark! 🔥
Watch highlights from her final round at #HSBCWomensChamps pic.twitter.com/MrF7vaC6uw
â LPGA (@LPGA) March 5, 2017
The USGA and R&A, golf’s governing bodies, have proposed some changes to the Rules of Golf, in an effort to modernize the games. In the above linked article, each “new” rule is listed with a video and a list of reasons for the proposed changes.
Here  are most of the changes (with my comments in italics):
The focus of the new dropping procedure would be on a specific ârelief areaâ of either 20 or 80 inches from a reference point or reference line.
The only requirement will be for you to hold the ball above the ground and let it go so that it falls through the air before coming to rest.
Everyone will be crouching and dropping the ball from a height of 2 inches onto an specific spot. Â
The ball must come to rest in the relief area where it was dropped, or else the ball must be redropped.
The relief area will be measured by a fixed distance of either 20 or 80 inches from the reference point or the reference line.
You’ll need to be sure to have a measuring tape in your bag.
A ball is lost if not found in three minutes (rather than the current 5 minutes).
A player may always substitute a ball when taking relief.
Relief allowed without penalty for an embedded ball anywhere (except in sand) in the âgeneral areaâ (a new term for âthrough the greenâ).
Always replace your ball on its original spot, even if it was blown by the wind or moved for no clear reason.
Repair of almost any damage allowed on the putting green (including spike marks and animal damage).
Players will not be using their putters to tap down a trough from their ball to the hole.
No penalty for touching your line of play on the putting green so long as doing so does not improve the conditions for your stroke.
No penalty if your ball played from the putting green (or anywhere else) hits the unattended flagstick in the hole.
Areas of desert, jungle, lava rock, etc. (in addition to areas of water) may now be marked as red or yellow âpenalty areas.â
Weren’t most courses already doing this?
No penalty for moving loose impediments, touching the ground, or grounding your club in a penalty area.
Committees are given the discretion to mark any penalty area as red so that lateral relief is always allowed.
Relief from a red penalty area no longer allowed on the opposite side from where the ball last entered the penalty area.
Virtually no one knew this was a rule anyways.
Relaxed Rules relating to loose impediments and touching the ground in a bunker.
Finally it will be possible to remove the pebbles that can mess up a good bunker shot. Â
Relief allowed outside a bunker for an unplayable ball for two penalty strokes.
A club damaged during a round can continue to be used, even if you damaged it in anger.
This is dangerous.
You will not be allowed to replace a damaged club during a round if you were responsible for the damage.
The use of DMDs will be allowed unless a Local Rule has been adopted prohibiting their use.
A caddie is not allowed to stand on a line behind a player while the player is taking his or her stance and until stroke is made.
A caddie may lift and replace a playerâs ball on the putting green without the playerâs specific authorization to do so.
Has this ever happened?
It is recommended that you play âready golfâ and make each stroke in no more than 40 seconds.
A new âMaximum Scoreâ form of stroke play is recognized, where a playerâs score for a hole is capped at a max score.
Kevin Na wants this one.
Committees are given authority to adopt their own code of player conduct and to set penalties for breaches of that code.
When you have good reason to mark and lift your ball, you are no longer required to first announce your intention.
A playerâs reasonable judgment will not be second-guessed based on later evidence.
This is because Tiger cheated when he took his drop in the Players Championship. Â He gained over 100 yards on his drop by saying his drive hooked over a some land before going in the water, when everyone there and the NBC cameras showed he hooked it straight into the lake.