"Your uncle molests collies"

Pars the Par 5 2nd. Needs to be birdieing those holes if he's going to have any chance at a 65 or 66.

No offense but that's exactly wrong. Who applies the rules when there is no officials? The competitors do. This is one of the things that separates golf from other sports and it's very important. Reminds me of a match I played in a Cup Team situation many years ago. The guy I was playing grounded his club behind his ball in the rough and his ball moved. He was a 100 yards away from me so I didn't see it but he called it on himself. It was on the 17th hole and in the end we halved the match. That's golf and as a competitor one has the responsibility. And if you cheat your buddies in your regular foursome you're a huge schmuck.

I love golf as a game. I hate golf as a social institution.

I agree with your parenthetical, and that's also why I usually play alone.

I played with my uncle and some of his friends last year and we were on 15 and he asked me, "Why aren't you drinking?"

I told him, "I don't play golf to socialize."

He told me I was no fun, and I responded that I don't play to have fun, I play to hone my craft.

Earlier this week I went to the course to practice and saw a gaggle of about ten carts around a tree with a bunch of guys bullshitting, squawking about politics, and drinking. It disgusted me because I felt like they were using the game for the purposes you outlined in parentheses.

I think a 68 or 69 would still leave him in a good position.

Course is too susceptible to good scores today. He needs a 66.

They did not tell him.

I think -10 or -11 is the winning score, hence why I thought he needed two 67s.

A lot of it depends on Day, IMO.

his mindset is to get to -10 by around hole 15 tomorrow and then start worrying about what he needs to do to win

Unless there is a ton of misinformation in the media about this (which, I grant, wouldn't be surprising considering the pedantic nature of this bullshit controversy), they did.

I have no idea how the rules officials initially determined the drop was fine. It was blatantly obvious that the drop was not as "close as possible" to the original shot. Had they assessed the penalty yesterday before he signed his card like they should have there would be no controversy.

I think it's about 70% as much bullshit as the Dustin Johnson grounding of the club at the Open a few years back...

and I thought that was A LARGE AMOUNT of bullshit

http://www.masters.com/en_US/videos/index.html 3:00 MARK

I would suggest that you're a schmuck in any sport if you cheat. Why the honor code gets applied to golf more stringently than any other sport is foolish and hypocritical.