Shane Lowry assessed 2 stroke penalty for ball moving during practice swing.
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run something on the green. The thing that he’s got to avoid here is a pot bunker some 180 yards in front of him. He needs to just skirt that. Yeah, I I think they had it in their heads. The ball moved. I caused it to move. It’s two shot penalty. Uh they only had one camera angle which was zoomed in at the ball that none of me actually full length which we were looking for and needed. Um, and yeah, it’s just uh, yeah, it’s there’s an element it must feel unfair like a little bit, but I’m not going to like, you know, if the ball moved and I causes a move, it moves two shot penalty. The last thing I’m going to do is sit there and argue and not take the penalty and then get slaughtered all over social media tonight for been a cheat. Like, I’m not that. You’re a player that’s called shots numerous times. I have. Yeah. And I would have if the ball moved I would have called it on myself and my head was definitely looking down at the ball and I didn’t see it moving. But I’m after signing for 72 there now.
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Ridiculous penalty
Yes it moved but the club head was not near it when it did terrible decision
Could have been rain or moisture on the grass?????
The club was in the air grass was wet it was not his fault
It moved slightly to a worse position, some rules need to be updated. Rule says he needs to replace ball to its original position or as close as possible with a 1 shot penalty. An update like, play it as it is. Speed up the game, 6 hours to play 18holes is nuts.
That's Portrush for you. 🤔🇮🇪
One more reason to hate golf snobbery.
If he saw it move why would he hit it from where it was and not "move" it back to its original position taking a one stroke penalty? It was a two stoke because he "caused" it to move, one stroke…which is questionable then he hit it without moving it back. Two stroke. Logically, if he saw it move, which I do not think he did nor his caddy, he would have take one stroke and figured out a way to move it back without it moving again. I find the ruling a bit unfair because normal mortal human golfers do not have cameras zoomed into our ball and every movement of our person analyzed by millions of people.
But, Shane earned my respect by taking the two shots, manning up and taking responsibility. With this one event, he won my respect.