WE INTERRUPT OUR usual programming to bring you news from the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional golf tournament, an event which we have shamefully overlooked to this point. We can only apologise.
David Wicks, a student at Jacksonville University, was involved in an incident which reminded us that if it can happen on a golf course, there is almost certainly a bizarre rule for it in the book.
As the JUDolphins website reports, Wicks was waiting to tap in a short putt and finish out the hole when his ball fell from his pocket and rolled into the water hazard.
Under the rule, a player must finish a hole using the same ball with which he started, otherwise a penalty applies.
And so Wicks had no option but to strip down to his underwear and spend the maximum five minutes allowed looking for his ball.
To make matters worse, he couldn’t find it, and so after all of that the two-stroke penalty still applied.
At least he could see the funny side of it, tweeting out some video footage of his search.
“For all those asking for evidence of today’s antics,” he wrote. “The camera adds 10lbs.”
The story did have a happy ending as, despite the penalty, Jacksonville qualified for the national championships for the first time in university history.
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