2 Rules Official, Rickie Fowler argues about relief. But Fowler has an epic last words

Rickie Fowler joked in the middle of the argument.

He just debated with a rule official about whether he could hit the ball, and now the second time is on the way. But, as he waited, Fowler wanted to know:

Is PGA Tour style stroke?

“So if I hit and pull it away,” Fowler broke, “will I do like a shot?”

Never ask. At least, it brought a scene to the right of the 14th hole of the Colonial Country Club on Thursday. In the first round of Charles Schwab challenge, Fowler’s tee passed by, passing a bunch of trees and completing about an inch to the left of the border fence with barbed wire, resulting in:

– A discussion with Pete Dachisen, the first rule officer, PGA Tour Live Mics. About one yard to the left of the ball is a muddy cart path, and Fowler said he would stand at the address, meaning he would receive no fines. He also said he would shoot no matter what the rules helped. But Dutchson believes the play is unreasonable, which means Fowler won’t fall, given the lies. lead to:

– Talk to Robby Ware, the second rule official. Dachisen called his second opinion. Ware squatted on the ball and also thought the fence might run down under Fowler’s ball, which made the shot even more difficult. At this point, Fowler’s caddie Ricky Romano said: “I mean, if you’re going to hit it, you should get relief because you’re standing on it.

After asking Fowler how to stand on the ball, Weill and Fowler came to this round trip:

“If the path is not here and you don’t stand on the road, will you shoot?” Weir said: “

“I’m going now just because other options are not good,” Fowler said.

“Well, another option obviously you can play a selection on the path that doesn’t play. This is one of your other options. The question is whether this is a reasonable shot if you’re not standing on the cart path.”

“Well, there’s really no other option,” Fowler said.

“There is but not a free relief option,” Weill said.

The speech ended, resulting in:

– Fowler hits. Officials think the play is unreasonable, giving him the option of hitting the ball as it is or to get a hard hit. He went with the former.

His ball manipulated from the trees to his left, into the roughness on the right side of the fairway. From there, he made a bogey five and he finished with 70 even plays.

“Amazing shots,” said the PGA Tour Live announcer.

Later on the radio, this time TV rules and video director Rich Pierson explains what happened in this way:

“His ball is on the fence, which is a growing fence. And, he thinks the shooting he plays is unreasonable because he wants comfort from the road in the cart. Obviously, you can’t get out of the boundaries; his comfort; his comfort is on the left side of Pete. So Pete is shooting Rob in an untimely manner, so he shoots Rob inappropriately, which is non-compliant. In seeing the same situation, if Rickie isn’t here, you’ll hit this picture.

One announcer responded, “That’s where I was confused. There was no recourse, the shooting was made, but they said, OK, you’ll do it, and then he did it.”

“This is correct, but it was unreasonable for him to get relief because of that shooting,” Pearson said.

There is one more thing to pay attention to here.

There is another joke.

As Fowler heads towards the ball after the fence shot, he yells:

“I didn’t touch the fence.”

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