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College golfer signs not one, but two incorrect scorecards on same day at Pinehurst No. 2

Hopefully down the road, it will be a funny story to tell. 

File this under something you don’t see every day.

SMU’s Areen Aggarwal was in the lineup earlier this week at the Wake Forest Invitational at Pinehurst No. 2, site of the 2024 U.S. Open. The freshman played 36 holes on the opening day of play Monday before finishing up the tournament with an 18-hole final round on Tuesday.

However, neither of his scores counted toward the team score on the first day.

Aggarwal signed not one, but two incorrect scorecards on the first day of play, disqualifying both of his scores. It cost SMU 10 shots in the team competition over the first two rounds.

In the final round, Aggarwal shot even-par 70, the second-best score of the day for the Mustangs, which finished at 30 over and solo 10th of 12 teams. Without the incorrect scorecards, SMU would’ve placed sixth.

A tough situation, for sure, but Aggarwal bounced back strong on Tuesday. Hopefully down the road, it will be a funny story to tell.

Right call or outdated rule? Social media reacts to Jordan Spieth’s DQ at 2024 Genesis Invitational

Does the rule need to be changed?

Friday was a wild day at the 2024 Genesis Invitational.

First, there was tournament host Tiger Woods withdrawing from the tournament at Riviera Country Club because of an illness, even a scare with an ambulance waiting to possibly take him away. Then after the round was completed, one of the stars of the PGA Tour was disqualified.

Jordan Spieth was DQ’d after signing 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 owned up to his mistake, posting on his social media accounts about the ordeal.

The announcement came late Friday night, with Spieth in the third-to-final group of the day, and it sent social media into a frenzy discussing the rule and how it happened in the first place.

However, that didn’t stop the shortage of people discussing whether the rule needed to be changed or if it was the right call. Here are some of the best reactions to Spieth’s DQ:

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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Jordan Spieth DQ’d from the 2022 JP McManus Pro-Am

DQ’d? From a pro-am? That appears to be the case for Jordan Spieth.

DQ’d?

From a pro-am?

That appears to be the case for Jordan Spieth at the 2022 JP McManus Pro-Am in Limerick, Ireland.

The event is a two-day, 36-hole charitable event that has raised more than $145 million in its previous five stagings.

Spieth is one of a plethora of stars playing. Tiger Woods is also there, as is Rory McIlroy. A handful of LIV Golf Series guys are there as well, including Bryson DeChambeau and Graeme McDowell.

The McManus is the latest stop during an amazing Irish golf swing for Spieth this week leading up to the 150th Open Championship.

According to the Twitter handle SpiethLegion, the trouble began when Spieth picked up too soon on the 14th hole. That eliminated him from the individual competition, but he can continue play and help his team. He reportedly did just that with a birdie at 16.

It’s also noted on the DP World Tour official leaderboard. Spieth was 3 over through 13 holes at the time.

Disqualified from a pro-am – that’s gotta be a first for Spieth.

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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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Scott Harrington DQ’ed; Jimmy Walker hit with penalty but survives cut at Valspar Championship

PGA Tour pros regret their errors as Harrington signed an incorrect scorecard while Walker missed his tee time.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Scott Harrington was disqualified from the Valspar Championship after the second round for signing an incorrect scorecard.

The DQ was a mere formality as Harrington, 40, had shot 1-over 72, which combined with his opening-round 4-over 75, would have been several shots too many in order to stick around and play on the week. Still, it continues to be confounding why signing an incorrect scorecard (Rule 6-6d) is still treated as if it’s the early 20th century when in today’s day and age every shot is measured by ShotLink and most likely recorded. It’s almost equally hard to explain why players continue to make scoring mistakes.

Jimmy Walker nearly joined Harrington as a DQ. He was penalized two strokes for being late to his 7:39 am tee time in Group 44 on Friday (Rule 5.3A).

Walker, whose last victory on the PGA Tour is the 2016 PGA Championship, was on the range when a rules official notified him that he had one minute to get to the first tee. He arrived too late.

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Had Walker arrived more than five minutes late, he would have been disqualified. Walker had to add two strokes to his score on the par-5 first hole, turning a 5 into a double-bogey 7. He rallied with five birdies in his final 13 holes to sign for 2-under 69 and made the cut on the number at 1-under 141 at Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course.

On social media, he posted: “Pro tip….don’t be late for your tee time. Thirty years in tourney golf and that’s a first…”

Cameron Tringale DQ’ed for rules violations at PGA Championship … again

Cameron Tringale was disqualified from the PGA Championship for the second time in the last seven years.

For Cameron Tringale, Friday at the PGA Championship was a case of deja vu all over again, as baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra once memorably put it.

During the 2nd round of the 102nd PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, Tringale signed for a score lower than he actually made on the par-3, No. 8. He signed for a 3 but made a 4.

After his scorecard was officially certified, he then left the scoring area, but later returned to notify the Scoring Referee of his mistake. He was subsequently disqualified for violating Rule 3.3b(3).

As rule 3.3 – Wrong Score for a Hole – states, if a player returns a scorecard with a wrong score for any hole:

  • Returned Score Higher Than Actual Score. The higher returned score for the hole stands.
  • Returned Score lower Than Actual Score or No Score Returned. The player is disqualified.

Tringale, 32, had signed for 2-under 68 and was going to be sweating out the cutline the rest of the day.

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But this isn’t the first time Tringale was disqualified from the PGA Championship for a scoring violation.

In 2014, a guilt-ridden Tringale called the Tour and disqualified himself after finishing T-36 and earning $53,000. He claimed to have missed a stroke when attempting to tap in on the 11th hole of the final round.

“Realizing that there could be the slightest doubt that the swing over the ball should have been recorded as a stroke, I spoke with the PGA of America and shared with them my conclusion that the stroke should have been recorded,” Tringale said in a statement after the 2014 PGA.

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