Eckroat was assessed a penalty for waiting more than 10 secs for his ball to drop during ’24 PLAYERS

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made a double on nine, a bogey on eight. Are you going to hang or you going to drop down? Which way? The wind is blowing, Mike. Yep. All right. The winner at the Cognizant. Take the casual walk up there to start the clock. And then you get 10 seconds. So now you start counting. We’re all looking. We’re all watching. The clock starts ticking. Joel Damon in for a stare. Everybody looking down. looking down. We’re at seven or eight seconds now. Let’s see. Is it moving? There’s no way it’s Are you moving? Are you going? It looks like it’s leaning. No. All right, we’re past 10 seconds. Mark Davik, our rules analyst. So, now falls in. But what about the time? Yes, Mike. That is over 10 seconds. So, you’re allowed a reasonable amount of time to get to the hole and then an additional 10 seconds from that point. If the ball falls in during that 10 seconds, it was hold by its last stroke. In this case, it fell after the 10 seconds. So, you count it as hold, but you add one penalty stroke. God.