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ROCHESTER, NY – A mistake covering the length of a club head has been costly for Cameron Young.
The mistake came on Friday during round two play at the PGA Championship, when the player ranked 15th in the world moved his ball marker on the 16th green at Oak Hill Country Club – and was then bowled from the new spot. this, no. And a two-stroke penalty. His foot became a double ghost.
From there, Young played five-over golf, finishing with five-over 75 and was expected to miss the cut with nine over two days. According to an ESPN+ broadcast, Young was told out of the hole on the 5th hole, on the 14th of the day after starting on the back nine.
“Ultimately it’s a mental error,” analyst Scott Verplank said on the ESPN+ broadcast.
The sequence began after Young hit his first putt at 16 by 2 feet, 1 inch, putting him in line with Tommy Fleetwood and Hideki Matsuyama, his playing partners. Fleetwood asked Young if he could move his sign. He did – one bat going right. Then Fleetwood and Matsuyama finished the hole.
Play Young from the new site which is Violation of Rule 15.3c. Just after noon, reporters were notified of the decision.
“While playing the 16th hole (the 7th hole of his round),” the statement said, “Young positioned close to the hole and marked his ball. Because his ball mark was on the line of play of both Tommy Fleetwood and Hideki Matsuyama, he moved his ball mark correctly one clubhead length to the side After the other players had completed the hole, Young failed to return the ball marker to its original position.
“As a result, when he substituted and fielded the ball, Young had played from the wrong spot and incurred a general penalty (two strikes) for his violation of Rule 15.3.”
On the ESPN+ broadcast, on-course reporter Ned Michaels said Young’s father, David — also the longtime pro at New York’s Sleepy Hollow Country Club — called him a life lesson. Verplank, a longtime pro himself, also had an idea.
“It happened a few times, but in the end it wound up on its own,” he said on the telecast. “There are a lot of ways to kind of remind yourself to put it back in. You know, you say you mark your ball with a quarter, and if you always mark your ball upside down, you do it on purpose, so if you have to move it, you flip it to Where her tails are, even when she puts the ball down, she goes, Hey, wait a minute, my coin tails now; it’s always a heads up.”
Notably, Tiger Woods has said he’s making the same move – since he made the same mistake as Young. In the 1996 US Amateur final, Woods made his mark and was about to walk out of that spot – only for playing partner Steve Scott to tell him he was wrong.
“I have forgotten [to move my ball back]Woods said. “for him [remind me] It was very cool. From that moment on I always move my coin head up and if I move my coin or someone asks me to move it I always move it tails so when I look at my ball if it shows tails that means I moved it. This is real sportsmanship [what Scott did]. A testament to what golf is all about.”