2022 Workday Memorial Tournament

[Zippo]

I see Matsuyama was disqualified from the tournament. 

Hideki Matsuyama disqualified from Memorial Tournament

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DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — 2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama has been...

Too bad but rules are rules. 

[boogielicious]

Bummer.

[iacas]

You have to wonder what he was doing with the stuff on his driver face. Basically, he had this on his driver face, right?

[saevel25]

Took a quick screenshot...

Yea, that looks to be like white out, nail polish, or maybe the paint you use for miniatures? 

That does look excessive. 

[Zippo]

12 minutes ago, saevel25 said:

Took a quick screenshot...

Yea, that looks to be like white out, nail polish, or maybe the paint you use for miniatures? 

That does look excessive. 

They said that his "club guy" had put that on there to help Hideki with his alignment.  More here:

Hideki Matsuyama disqualified from Memorial due to non-conforming club

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Matsuyama was disqualified from the Memorial during Thursday's opening round at Muirfield Village in Ohio.

 

[iacas]

Well that's just dumb. That's not exactly a difficult rule to understand. Or a relatively unknown rule.

[saevel25]

It was my assumption that you just don't put stuff on the face of a club. I guess the right amount of paint is allowed since club makers sometimes paint grooves white. Yea, that was just dumb to do. 

[Zippo]

20 minutes ago, iacas said:

Well that's just dumb. That's not exactly a difficult rule to understand. Or a relatively unknown rule.

No kidding. Apparently the stuff was applied by one of his "equipment people" who also surely should have known better.

[Friz]

Assuming this is the correct rule, am I interpreting correctly that the issue isn't so much that he marked the club with a visual indicator, but that the markings could influence the movement of the ball?  Or is it simply the fact that it was marked in an area greater than the specified 0.375 inch square?

 

d. Decorative Markings

The centre of the impact area may be indicated by a design within the boundary of a square whose sides are 0.375 inches (9.53 mm) in length. Such a design must not unduly influence the movement of the ball. Decorative markings are permitted outside the impact area.

 

[Club Rat]

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Hasn't he been doing this for years? This is a picture of his 3 wood from 2017. I don't understand why this is all the sudden a problem?

I read Hideki indicated the paint was an alianment aid.

[iacas]

It’s simple: you can’t put foreign material on the club face. See also the GC Quad stickers another pro was penalized for failing to remove.

[jmanbooyaa]

Does this fall on the caddie for not removing? 

[Zippo]

2 hours ago, jmanbooyaa said:

Does this fall on the caddie for not removing? 

In my opinion the player has the ultimate responsibility. The penalty is on the player. 

[iacas]

4 hours ago, jmanbooyaa said:

Does this fall on the caddie for not removing? 

The freaking equipment rep is the one who put it on there to begin with. It falls on all of them.

 

[Vinsk]

Silly to even use it at a tournament. Nonsense micro-tinkering. 

[Friz]

https://golf.com/gear/hideki-matsuyama-dq-learn-alignment/?amp=1

Interesting read, not so much that he did something to the face of his club, it was the fact it could be felt outside the grooves that caused the DQ

[David L Yskes]

9 hours ago, Zippo said:

In my opinion the player has the ultimate responsibility. The penalty is on the player. 

yes it does...   it's just like having too many clubs in your bag..   there has been a couple pro's who've gotten penalized for it