I would have the fan ejected for that. This isn't baseball here. I would say that they should make a new rule that adds a stroke for hitting some one even if they purposely get hit, that might make them stay in the fairways a little more often.
19-1 By Outside Agency
If a ball in motion is accidentally deflected or stopped by any outside agency, it is a rub of the green, there is no penalty and the ball must be played as it lies except:
(a) If a ball in motion after a stroke other than on the putting green comes to rest in or on any moving or animate outside agency, the player must, through the green or in a hazard, drop the ball, or on the putting green place the ball, as near as possible to the spot where the outside agency was when the ball came to rest in or on it, and (b) If a ball in motion after a stroke on the putting green is deflected or stopped by, or comes to rest in or on, any moving or animate outside agency except a worm or an insect, the stroke is canceled. The ball must be replaced and the stroke replayed. If the ball is not immediately recoverable, another ball may be substituted.
(Player’s ball deflected or stopped by another ball — see Rule 19-5.)
Note: If the referee or the Committee determines that a player’s ball has been purposely deflected or stopped by an outside agency, Rule 1-4 applies to the player. If the outside agency is a fellow-competitor or his caddie, Rule 1-2 applies to the fellow-competitor.
Outside Agency
An “outside agency’’ is any agency not part of the match or, in stroke play, not part of the competitor’s side, and includes a referee, a marker, an observer and a forecaddie. Neither wind nor water is an outside agency.
1-4 Points Not Covered by Rules
If any point in dispute is not covered by the Rules, the decision should be made in accordance with equity.
Tiger was just told about this event in his postround interview. He had no idea since it happened in the trees. He did say thanks to "Shaq" for the help.
^^ haha that'd be great, i did that on the course one time when these guys were playing up our ****, took the ball and threw it in the creek, told em it went in when they rode up
I recall a moment in a tourney that Arnie was playing in and he was asked why he hit a 3-iron, which seemed to obviously be too much club. He said, if it goes over the green, it'll hit a spectator and the ball will end of just off the fringe. Which was better than being short.
By the way, I don't think that this helped Tiger very much. He was still blocked from a full shot and had to lay up well short of the green. If the ball had not been interfered with it would have ended up in the trees, but the trees were spaced far apart and he would have had an easy pitch back to the fairway and ended up with a similar 3rd shot to what he had. There's always the chance that the ball would end up tight against a tree, but the odds were much better that he'd have a shot back to the fairway. Basically a non-event from a score perspective.
Noone knows if the ball would have been better off or worse. You can say worse all day long but you have no clue where it was going. He was going to have to hack out anyways like he did to try and make par. Either way i doubt it helped him anyways. His third shot was from a tough position anyways whos to say his third would have been easier or harder? Surely from any position Tigers third would have been on the green but thats speculation as well. we have no clue whether it really helped him or hurt him. One would think it may have helped but we dont know that and the fact that he made a great up and down for the 4 is all that matters. Its not like he birdied the hole
This was a non-event. It's been happening for years. The galleries around the greens used to be Arnie's 15th club. On a similar note, though, does anyone remember a drive that Tiger hit a few years ago in a major that looked to be headed for serious trouble way off the left fairway. A fan was chasing furiously after it and the cameras lost sight of both behind a structure and some trees. When we next saw the ball it was in a perfect lie/line to the green, nowhere near where it seemed to be headed. Sorry for the obscure OT, but I just wondered if anyone else remembered it.
August 18th, 2006, 03:43 PM
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