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   scooter

   Aug 8, 2016 at 11:09 pm

   Everybody and their dog knew what score was shot … shotlink … huge electronic scoreboards everywhere … TV commentators going crazy … standard bearers … walking scorekeeper … definitely time for the outdated manual scorekeeping to go bye bye!

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   Mat

   Aug 8, 2016 at 8:45 pm

   The Rules should be changed in that a competition committee can adjust a score due to a scorekeeping error by unanimous vote within 24 hours of the end of competition, or something like that. Considering the PGA has shotlink, it’s hard to justify the level of acceptance in scorekeeping and putting it on the player.

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   MRC

   Aug 8, 2016 at 4:00 pm

   Spectacular round!
   Scorecard is incorrect. Should read -12 on upper right hand corner.

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     Nick

     Aug 9, 2016 at 10:30 am

     That -11 is for his final overall score for the tournament, which was -11 (he started the round at +1).

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   RichN

   Aug 8, 2016 at 1:04 pm

   For the love of all that is holy, there is absolutely no reason for professional golfers to keep their own scorecards. It’s an antiquated practice and contributes to the perception that the rules of golf are too arbitrary. Yes, mistakes can be avoided by the player reviewing his scorecard before signing it, which is what happened in this case, but to have a clerical error potentially affect the results of a competition when there are plenty of resources to handle scoring at a professional event is just silly.

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     Justin

     Aug 8, 2016 at 3:27 pm

     Couldn’t agree more with your sentiment here. It’s time for golf to bring scoring and other antiquated practices into the modern era. Can you imagine if this mistake was not caught and Furyk had been DQ’d? The difference there is that many people who otherwise would not even know he shot 58, would then read or see a story about how antiquated and ridiculous the game of golf is. It’s bad enough we have equipment manufacturers calling it quits and the largest supplier of clubs to the public on the verge of bankruptcy, we don’t need another step in the wrong direction. Golf needs to make much more of an effort to attract the younger and even middle-aged crowd. Nearly everyone loves shot tracker (and I get that it’s expensive technology) so why not have a trackman on every tee box to get more people interested? They need to do something to pull in new people, not keep the purists happy… the purists are not leaving the game and are a dying breed anyways. I don’t get why current golfers are afraid of “new” golfers coming in and ruining the tradition of the sport. If we can’t grow the sport to different sectors then shame on us for keeping the game for ourselves. This game is one that needs to be shared and together I think we can show that there are many acceptable ways to play golf.

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     satch_boogie

     Aug 8, 2016 at 4:19 pm

     You would think the rules of golf were written on stone tablets and brought down by Moses himself. I totally agree that there needs to be a rules committee to sanitize the rules of competition. One that gets me is that if your ball moves through no fault of your own after soling your putter you get a penalty. A lot of the rules are arcane but at least reasonably fair – but some of the rules need to go.

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