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They're like a car accident... they draw mostly curious looky loo's that slow down the flow of traffic...

Neither, evidently, is Ms. Wie...always someone else's fault, hmm?

Shade

I don't claim to know why the rules are the way they are, but let's consider the following:

No matter what current technology is used to track the player's progress, it cannot track everything: It can't track a double-hit out of deep rough, and I doubt it will keep track of an accidental or purposeful lie-improvement in the woods. Some things only the player knows, so it seems reasonable to make the player responsible for their score, and attest it.

Now suppose that a double-hit did take place, and no-body on the course seemed to notice. The player fills out the card as if nothing happened, then leaves with the unsigned card, watches the golf-channel to see if anyone caught the double-hit, changes the card if it was caught, doesn't change the card if nobody caught it, and returns the card. The 'fact-checking' doesn't need to take that long, it could be obtained from an accomplice directly outside the scoring trailer. For reasons like that, it is probably best to have cards attested promptly, and under official supervision.

Supervision is the focal word, there should be supervision, but obviously there is none or there would never be problems like this. If I got a job and forgot to clock out one day, I doubt I would be fired. On top of that I doubt at the end of the pay period, they would refuse to pay me because I forgot to clock out one day.

Maybe they won't fire you but how do they know how much to pay you at the end of the pay period? How do you prove how long you worked that day?

Shade

A simple solution to all this nonsense would be to make it a policy of the LPGA and PGA to have the score card checked over when the card is turned in, and not allow the player to leave until the offical stated that the card is signed and everything is correct. This would solve all the problems and since all the cards get checked anyway, it wouldn't be a problem to start doing this. Let's face it, only 2 golfers are finishing their round at any one time, so it's not like they have 30 score cards to deal with at any one time. They have 2 golfer and 2 cards every 10 minutes or so. What's the problem with checking the cards as they come in. Seems like to smart thing to do so this never happens again. I hope the USGA and the others smarten up and get this resolved. Assumng they care of course.

There is nothing to resolve. If a player is stupid enough to forget to sign their scorecard, they are DQ'd...

It's really very simple.

All you guys are going way overboard with this M Wie thing.

She lost.

Done.

Until next time...

goodbye.

thats

Amen!! That is all that needs to be said.