14 yo DQ's self after winning wisconsin junior PGa tournament

Nash said Wednesday he wouldn't have been able to live with himself if he'd kept the medal from the Aug. 11 tournament. One of Nash's golf mentors, Chris Wood, says many adults would have justified keeping the medal by saying they didn't use the extra club.

It's a sad world we live in and kudos to the kid. Not many kids these days have morals like they. They all feel entitled to everything.

MILWAUKEE -- — Zach author was shocked when he unconcealed he had digit likewise whatever sport clubs in his activity a pair hours after success a lowly river PGA tournament. But rules are rules, and the 14-year-old from gray river prefabricated a selection that strength assail whatever people: He disqualified himself and given his medal. “I knew correct absent I couldn’t springy with myself if I kept this medal, so it was pretty instantaneous,” author said during a sound discourse from his activity in metropolis on Wednesday, his prototypal period of broad school. Nash effort a 77 to get the boys 13-14 geezerhood sectionalization at the metropolis County Parks Tour Invitational, which is separate by the river PGA Section, on Aug. 11. He vex 31 added players in his division, every patch his grandparents from Chiwere were watching. After his victory, author went to the Rivermoor Golf Club – where he played 36 holes nearly every period this season – to training more and speech to digit of his mentors, Chris Wood, the club’s nous sport professional. “I was display everybody my ribbon and then Chris and I went and we were having a salt and he said ‘Hey, whose edifice is this? And I said ‘my friend’s.’ And he said ‘This makes 15.’ I was in damper after that,” author said. The penalisation for breaking the rule, titled conception 4-4, is digit strokes for apiece mess played with more than 14 clubs, with a peak of quaternary penalisation strokes. But since he didn’t attending his player edifice during the tournament, a penalisation wasn’t added. That meant he subscribed an inaccurate scorecard, which he knew disqualified him. Nash said sport prides itself on herb and players occupation penalties on themselves. While the selection was clear, he said he couldn’t support but scream a taste in face of Wood. Wood had to call Nash’s father, Bob, to garner him up. Later that night, author titled Andy Landenberger, lowly journeying administrator for the WPGA, to vindicate what happened. He dispatched backwards the medal, which Landenberger said he would inform to runner-up European Reinhardt, who effort an 80. Nash, who has been golfing for most threesome years, said a someone spent the period at his concern before the competition and mitt a 5-wood club, and he place it in his activity not realizing it prefabricated a amount of 15. Wood said author prefabricated him and the edifice proud. “I conceive most grouping – not meet kids – would hit proven to reassert in their nous having the player clubs in their activity and not using them as an defence to not call and alter themselves,” Wood said. Nash’s ascendant said his son is a lawful teenager – he talks backwards to his parents, picks on his brothers – and was a taste astonied the teenager didn’t consider, meet for a moment, ownership the nonachievement to himself. But he said he did the correct abstract and he and his spouse were proud. “When I prototypal heard it, when he told me the full story, I thought, ‘Wow, you are doing the correct thing,’” Bob author said. “You hit to ready doing what’s right. But in the backwards of my mind, I’m intellection ‘If you didn’t feature anything the stagnant wouldn’t change.’” The boy’s open accomplishment was prototypal reportable by the metropolis Journal Sentinel. Nash started his underclassman assemblage weekday at metropolis Union High School and plans to go discover for the sport team. He played in added competition on weekday – and counted his clubs threesome times. The faux pas has prefabricated him a meliorate golfer, he said. “It category of got me to be more alive of every the rules, especially 4-4,” he said.

Are you listening, LPGA?

After his victory, Nash went to the Rivermoor Golf Club — where he played 36 holes nearly every day this summer — to practice more and talk to one of his mentors, Chris Wood, the club's head golf professional. "I was showing everybody my medal and then Chris and I went and we were having a soda and he said 'Hey, whose club is this? And I said 'my friend's.' And he said 'This makes 15.' I was in shock after that," Nash said.

Apparently the rule say that the

how do you not realize an unfamiliar club in your bag? His friend's 5 wood was sitting in the bag the entire round? Find that kind of odd.