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Tiger Woods drops his ball after he hits it into the water on the 15th hole during the second round of the Masters.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — One day after controversy marred the Masters second round, with 14-year-old amateur Tianlang Guan penalized one shot for slow play, another controversy exploded on Saturday when tournament officials penalized Tiger Woods two shots for an illegal drop on the 15th hole during his second round on Friday.
Had this occurred two years ago, Woods would have been disqualified based on the rule.
But he was not this season thanks to a recent rule change that allows the rules committee discretion when it comes to violations reported after the fact. No rules official made any ruling on the matter before Woods signed his card.
Masters officials reviewed the drop on Saturday morning. They went with the revision to "Decision 33-7/4.5", which, according to the USGA's Web site, addresses "the situation where a player is not aware he has breached a Rule because of facts that he did not know and could not reasonably have discovered prior to returning his score card.
"Under this revised decision and at the discretion of the Committee, the player still receives the penalty associated with the breach of the underlying Rule, but is not disqualified."
So Woods, who bogeyed the 15th hole and finished the day at 3-under par, three shots out of the lead entering the third round, now gets a triple bogey on 15 and is scheduled to begin his Saturday round for his 1:45 p.m. tee time at 1-under par.
That is, of course, if Woods shows up for his tee time Saturday considering a call from many prominent figures in the game for him to disqualify himself because he willingly took the drop two yards back from where he originally hit the shot because it was a better yardage for him on the re-hit.
Three-time Masters winner Nick Faldo and fellow Golf Channel commentator Brandel Chamblee both called Woods out on the air Saturday morning and urged him to disqualify himself because he either knowingly broke the rule or misunderstood it.
Graeme McDowell, who at 5-over missed the cut by one shot, tweeted Saturday morning that he agreed with the penalty, saying, "Take the fact that it was Tiger out of the equation and it is a fair ruling."
Hunter Mahan, who shot a second-round 82 and missed the cut at 14-over, had this take: "I like this ruling because he took an illegal drop but no official brought it to his attn."
Fred Couples, who is one shot out of the lead and a friend of Woods', praised the new rule in an interview with the Golf Channel and agreed that Woods should be allowed to play on.
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