On Sunday, April 14th, golf’s biggest event- the Masters, took place in Augusta, Georgia. The best golfers from all around the world came together to compete for the weekend in this prestigious event. With that being said, of course all eyes were on the hot handed Tiger Woods who looked to be getting back into his once dangerous form. As Tiger approached the par 5, he took a shot that rolled into the water. Tiger had the ability to play a dropped ball. However, Woods did not drop the ball in the right spot and this led him to a two stroke penalty. This meant Woods would be even further back from the leader at the end of Saturday’s round.
Woods was not disqualified for this due to a new rule put in effect in 2010- rule 33-7/4.5 which states that “a penalty of disqualification may in exceptional individual cases be waived, modified or imposed if the Committee considers such action warranted.” They did not blame Tiger entirely for this because an official should have caught it before he signed his score card. Unfortunately, this penalty set Tiger back too many strokes to overcome the eventual winner, Adam Scott, who finished -9.