WE INTERRUPT OUR usual programming to bring you news from the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional golf tournament, an event which we have shamefully overlooked to this point. We can only apologise.
David Wicks, a student at Jacksonville University, was involved in an incident which reminded us that if it can happen on a golf course, there is almost certainly a bizarre rule for it in the book.
As the JUDolphins website reports, Wicks was waiting to tap in a short putt and finish out the hole when his ball fell from his pocket and rolled into the water hazard.
Under the rule, a player must finish a hole using the same ball with which he started, otherwise a penalty applies.
And so Wicks had no option but to strip down to his underwear and spend the maximum five minutes allowed looking for his ball.
To make matters worse, he couldn’t find it, and so after all of that the two-stroke penalty still applied.
At least he could see the funny side of it, tweeting out some video footage of his search.
“For all those asking for evidence of today’s antics,” he wrote. “The camera adds 10lbs.”
The story did have a happy ending as, despite the penalty, Jacksonville qualified for the national championships for the first time in university history.
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Player should respect fans. Fans pay to see football. Yes i know certain fans are bad. But not all. It’s the ugly side of sports i hate. Celebrate with your fans not bringing hate to others
@Simon Dwyer: You could forgive the player as his own fans had United jerseys on, he was confused.
Used to work in Tallaght near the stadium. There are always “fracas”.
@Ashling Fenton: that’s because of rovers
@John O Reilly: that’s soccer for ya!
@Ashling Fenton: I’ve been to Tallaght Stadium to watch Rovers, ROI U/21’s, WNT, Dundalk during their European run & now Pats. Have to say, never once seen a fracas involving fans. Mad the different perceptions people have!
@Rosco Bosco: hi rugby goy
@Rosco Bosco: Football. Unless you’re an American and if so I apologise.
@Niall Hollywood: or Irish or Australian
Irish soccer disgraces itself again. Is this even news anymore
@david lydon: There was a bit of handbags between players at the end of a tense game. Hardly Irish soccer disgracing itself now…