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Jordan Spieth disqualified at the 2024 Genesis Invitational

Spieth was tied for 20th, 10 back of leader Patrick Cantlay.

Jordan Spieth has been disqualified at the Genesis Invitational in Pacific Palisades, California.

Spieth, after shooting a 2-over 73 on Friday, was DQ’d after he signed an incorrect scorecard.

Spieth signed for a 3 after making a 4 on the 245-yard, par-3 fourth hole. He hit his tee shot into the left rough, chipped to within four feet and then missed the par putt.

Spieth finished 3 under after making a double bogey at 18. He was well within the cut line at the time, which is at 1 over.

The Texan opened the PGA Tour’s third signature event of the year with a 5-under 66 on Thursday, placing himself firmly in the mix.

Shortly after the DQ, Spieth posted a message on social media, saying “I take full responsibility.”

Genesis: 7 big names miss cut

Earlier in the day, tournament host Tiger Woods withdrew from the tournament due to sickness.

Spieth, who last won at the 2022 RBC Heritage, finished tied for sixth at the WM Phoenix Open last week.

Carlota Ciganda refuses slow-play penalty, gets DQ’d from LPGA’s Evian major

The DQ was for signing an incorrect scorecard.

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Carlota Ciganda, a two-time winner on the LPGA and a five-time member of the European Solheim Cup team, was disqualified after the first round of the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship, the fourth LPGA major of the season.

The official reason was for signing an incorrect scorecard, but the situation arose out of a slow-play penalty assessed on Ciganda’s final hole of the round. The Spaniard refused to acknowledge a two-shot penalty, signed her card without adding the two shots, then was DQ’d.

Ciganda was 3 over after her round, not counting the penalty strokes. The penalty would have pushed her score to 5-over 76, and she would have trailed first-round leader Paula Reto by 12 shots.

Ciganda was playing with fellow Arizona State alum Anna Nordqvist as well as Celine Herbin. Officially Group 14, the threesome started on the 10th hole Thursday at Evian Resort Golf Club in Evain-Les-Bains, France.

When they got to the seventh hole, their 16th hole of the day, they were notified by rules officials that they were out of position.

After failing to make up time, the group was put on the clock on the eighth hole, their 17th of the round. On the ninth hole, Ciganda took too long to play and was assessed a two-stroke penalty per the LPGA’s pace of play policy.

As was her right, she appealed to the advance and lead rules officials but was denied, meaning the two-stroke penalty would stick. She opted to sign her scorecard without accounting for those two strokes. Ciganda was told if she left the official recording area having turned in a signed incorrect scorecard, she would be disqualified. The LPGA said she left of her own accord, leading to the DQ.

An LPGA spokesperson told Golfweek: “Rule 3.3b(3) states that if a returned score is lower than the actual score, the player is disqualified from the competition. The exception to this Rule does not apply because Ciganda was aware of the penalty strokes received and upheld before signing her scorecard and leaving the recording area.”

Ciganda tied for 12th in her most recent event, the Dana Open, following a tie for 20th at the U.S. Women’s Open and a tie for third at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. She ranks 14th on this year’s money list with $876,447, and she is No. 31 in the Rolex Women’s World Rankings. She won both her LPGA titles in 2016.

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2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational: Kamaiu Johnson DQ’d for scoring violation

Johnson, 29, was deemed to have been in violation of Rule 3.3b, which means he signed an incorrect scorecard.

ORLANDO – The record will show that Kamaiu Johnson was disqualified from the Arnold Palmer Invitational. It will be a small footnote when the history of this week’s annual PGA Tour stop at Arnie’s Place is recalled, but what it will mean for Johnson’s reputation and how long it will linger with him is another story entirely.

Johnson, 29, was deemed to have been in violation of Rule 3.3b, which means he signed an incorrect scorecard.

In Johnson’s accounting of things, he made a double-bogey six at the par-4 ninth hole, not a seven, on Friday en route to shooting 5-over 77 at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club and Lodge and missing the cut by six strokes.

As first reported by Ryan French, AKA Monday Q Info on Twitter, Johnson told Kyle Westmoreland, who was keeping his card, on the 10th tee that he had made a six, but that score was questioned later in the scoring tent.

Westmoreland told Golfweek he didn’t see Johnson, who plays primarily on the APGA Tour and was competing this week on a sponsor exemption, finish the hole because the group had been put on the clock. Nick Hardy, the third player in the grouping, also reportedly had started to head to the 10th tee and didn’t see Johnson clean up after missing a 22-foot par putt from the fringe.

“We were on the clock, so I walked off,” Westmoreland said after his third round on Saturday. “I assumed he made the one after he missed.”

ShotLink data shows Johnson missed the par putt from 22½ feet, and followed by missing putts of three and four feet for bogey and double bogey before tapping in a 20-inch putt for his 7.

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After the round, Tour rules official Orlando Pope was called in to handle the disputed score. The discrepancy was resolved by the group’s walking scorer, who confirmed that Johnson made a triple-bogey 7 as well as by a ShotLink official, who used video from cameras around the green that showed visual proof of the three putts. Johnson would have missed the cut by six strokes, and has yet to make the cut in five career starts on the PGA Tour.

“It happens, I guess,” Westmoreland said. “At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. He missed the cut. It doesn’t look great, I guess, for some people, but I don’t have much to comment on. It was a non-factor. I think the Tour handled it well.”

On Saturday, Johnson took to social media to issue an apology, tweeting that he had lost count of his score in the moment: “I take the integrity of the game very seriously and I’m sorry this happened. I got a little overwhelmed in the moment with the group on the clock and lost count of my missed putts from 3 feet. I’ll do better.”

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Mark Hubbard DQ’d after he ‘knowingly added a 15th club’ and used it at Cadence Bank Houston Open

This is something you don’t see every day.

HOUSTON – Now, this is something you definitely don’t see every day.

Mark Hubbard was disqualified after finishing his second round of the 2022 Cadence Bank Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course on Friday after violating Rule 4.1c.

What did Hubbard do, exactly?

“Hubbard knowingly added a 15th club at the turn and used the club several times without declaring it out of play,” per the PGA Tour.

The rules of golf state there can be only 14 clubs in a player’s bag during a round.

It is unclear what club Hubbard added to his bag. Hubbard, who shot 75-74 (9 over) in the first two rounds, was going to miss the cut, his third straight.

He finished tied for fifth at the Sanderson Farms Championship earlier this year.

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Jason Kokrak DQed from Travelers Championship; Could it be an epic walkout from PGA Tour life?

If this was the last shot Kokrak hits on the PGA Tour, it could go down as an all-time walk-off.

Jason Kokrak’s final shot of the Travelers Championship was a doozy, and it led to a most unusual disqualification from the tournament.

Having belted a drive of 327 yards into the left rough at the ninth hole of TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., his final hole of the day, the burly Kokrak had little to play for and it showed. Having opened in 3-under 67 on Thursday, he was 4 over on the day – the damage of a 5-putt leading to one of two double bogeys on his card – and would need a minor miracle to make the cut.

Still, Kokrak, who is the 33rd-ranked player in the world, was just 43 yards from the hole. His all-or-nothing shot turned out to be a giant dud, flying over the green and across a road. ShotLink measured it as having traveled “87 yards into the unknown.”

But rather than go back to the original spot and take a penalty and finish out the hole, Kokrak took whatever balls he had left, hopped in his car and went home. He was disqualified from the tournament after failing to finish the hole and record a score and failing to sign and return a scorecard.

The story of Kokrak’s walk-off wedge into the great unknown would be a strange one in and of itself – who does that? – but then there’s the potential for a bigger walk-off of epic proportions.

The 37-year-old Kokrak, who has been sponsored by Golf Saudi even before the Saudi-backed LIV Golf was a thing and played in the Saudi International in February with PGA Tour approval, has long been rumored to be a player likely to join the upstart circuit. To do so, however, would lead to an indefinite suspension from the PGA Tour, where he has won three titles and more than $20 million since joining in 2012. Earlier this year, Kokrak was one of the most forthright players when he admitted that he was in talks with LIV Golf and his goal was to make as much money as he could so he could retire at age 44 and watch his kids grow up.

LIV Golf has three spots remaining in its 48-man field scheduled for next week in Portland at Pumpkin Ridge. Could Kokrak be one of the players to be named later?

If this was the last shot Kokrak hits on the PGA Tour – and that is purely conjecture at this point – it will go down as an all-time walk off as well as quite the slap in the face to a Tour that has been pretty darn good to him – $20 million earned is none too shabby.

The Action Network’s Jason Sobel texted with fellow Tour pro William McGirt, who played in Kokrak’s group on Friday and witnessed his finale. According to Sobel’s reporting, McGirt said they were unaware the ball had gone out of bounds and pointed out that since Kokrak certainly was going to miss the cut, the decision not to finish his round was actually made as a time-saving measure to help the group behind them that already was waiting in the fairway.

As Sobel noted, “it wasn’t some walk-off from PGA Tour life.”

That is still to be determined.

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Hideki Matsuyama disqualified from the Memorial for equipment violation

Hideki Matsuyama was informed after he finished the ninth hole that he was disqualified.

DUBLIN, Ohio – Hideki Matsuyama was disqualified from the 2022 Memorial Tournament midway through Thursday’s first round.

Matsuyama, who won his first PGA Tour title here in 2014 and won his first major championship at the 2021 Masters, was informed after he finished the ninth hole that he was disqualified. He had changed equipment during the round, which necessitated his disqualification, the first of his PGA Tour career.

Matsuyama made three bogeys in his first nine holes and would have made the turn in 3-over 38.

Earlier in the round, Matsuyama had perhaps the day’s biggest highlight. On the second hole, his approach bounded off a slope guarding the green and inexplicably came to rest on a slim bridge.

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Cameron Jordan says ejection vs. Chiefs helped him catch the birth of his daughter

New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan said his ejection vs. the Chiefs helped him get home in time for his daughter’s birth.

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Things didn’t go quite as planned for Cameron Jordan on Sunday. He was ejected late in the New Orleans Saints’ game with the Kansas City Chiefs for throwing a punch at an opponent, which he still says wasn’t intentional, though he’ll be quick to add was a mistake he can’t afford to make.

But things have a funny way of working out. Jordan’s wife Nikki went into labor just before kickoff, so Jordan’s ejection gave him a head start on rushing to the hospital to be with her and welcome their third child:

Jordan relayed the sequence of events to NFL Network’s Jane Slater on Tuesday, saying: “My wife had her water break pregame, then I get ejected for a punch that wasn’t intentional 70 plays or so into the game — still marinating on that — and my daughter Chanel Jordan was born two hours later.”

Talk about a roller coaster ride, going from a frustrating disqualification in a huge game to a new addition to the family. The Jordans are tight-knit, having traveled together to see Cam’s father Steve inducted to the Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor last season. In other years, their son Tank is usually dominating other players’ children in two-hand touch games on the sidelines.

But they’ve struggled like many other families amid the COVID-19 pandemic; Jordan has talked before about his decision to sleep in separate rooms after Saints games until clearing testing protocol. Here’s hoping for more happy days ahead for him and his growing family.

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Saints DE Cameron Jordan ejected in Week 15 vs. Chiefs

New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan was ejected for throwing a punch late in Week 15’s game with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Frustrations boiled over in the New Orleans Saints’ game with the Kansas City Chiefs, and it got Cameron Jordan disqualified. The defensive captain exchanged some blows with the Kansas City right tackle too close to the whistle for the officiating crew’s liking, so they threw a flag and tossed him for throwing a punch. It’s the first time Jordan’s been ejected in his 166-game career.

It’s an ugly scene, and Jordan should know better. But it’s easy to see why he lost his cool: getting held all afternoon is enough to upset anyone. Kansas City went into the game with 20 fouls for offensive holding in their first 13 games, second-most in the NFL, but they weren’t flagged for it once in Sunday’s matchup. They probably just happened to play a cleaner game up front than they have all year. Surely.

Still, Jordan hurt his team, and he has to watch himself more carefully moving forwards. The penalty yards he yielded set the Chiefs up for a walk-in touchdown run. New Orleans can’t afford to create those opportunities for such an accomplished offense. Here’s hoping it doesn’t cost them the game.

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