Aguilar slammed with four-shot penalty in Turkey

[boogielicious]

From golfchannel.com

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf-central-blog/aguilar-slammed-four-shot-penalty-turkey/

So no going to the car at the turn!

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Aguilar slammed with four-shot penalty in Turkey

By

Nick Menta

November 15, 2014, 6:51 pm

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Paging Ian Woosnam .

Chile's Felipe Aguilar was assessed a four-shot penalty Saturday at the Turkish Airlines Open thanks to an overnight club switch. Round 2 was suspended Friday in Turkey thanks to inclement weather, and when play resumed Saturday morning, Aguilar was found in violation of Rule 4-4 for having replaced a club in his bag mid-round.

"The player must not start a stipulated round with more than 14 clubs," read a statement from the European Tour . "He is limited to the clubs thus selected for that round except that if he started with fewer than 14 clubs, he may add any number provided his total number does not exceed 14.

[newtogolf]

I wonder how he got caught, did he unknowingly mention he swapped clubs or was someone hawking his bag and reported him.

[rogolf]

I wonder how he got caught, did he unknowingly mention he swapped clubs or was someone hawking his bag and reported him.

Hopefully, he brought it up himself, as is expected by the Rules.  However, I believe his fellow-competitor noticed it and questioned it, as he should do.

It's really just another example of a player not knowing the Rules governing his profession.

[Golfingdad]

It's really just another example of a player not knowing the Rules governing his profession.

I would highly doubt that he doesn't know the rule, but it's more like it slipped his mind due to the unusual circumstances of starting and finishing a round on different days.

They get to warm up in the morning after coming back the next day, right?  So that is quite out of the norm as well, "practicing" during a round.

More than likely, it was just a silly mistake.

[rogolf]

I would highly doubt that he doesn't know the rule, but it's more like it slipped his mind due to the unusual circumstances of starting and finishing a round on different days.

They get to warm up in the morning after coming back the next day, right?  So that is quite out of the norm as well, "practicing" during a round.

More than likely, it was just a silly mistake.

Rule 47 - During the stipulated round, a player's mind is never as clear as it was before, or will be after, the stipulated round. (and the same applies to Rules officials)

[turtleback]

I would highly doubt that he doesn't know the rule, but it's more like it slipped his mind due to the unusual circumstances of starting and finishing a round on different days.

They get to warm up in the morning after coming back the next day, right?  So that is quite out of the norm as well, "practicing" during a round.

More than likely, it was just a silly mistake.

On the warm-up they are not practicing during the stipulated round because the stipulated round is suspended.

In some ways this situation is a little reminiscent of the Jeff Overton DQ (for using alignment sticks while doing allowable practice during his round) in that they were both taken out of the routine and that was enough to cause the brain-fart.  So I agree with your first comment.

FWIW, I remember a story about Jack Nicklaus finding one of his kids' clubs in his bag a few holes into a tournament and getting a "too many clubs" penalty.

[Golfingdad]

On the warm-up they are not practicing during the stipulated round because the stipulated round is suspended.

In some ways this situation is a little reminiscent of the Jeff Overton DQ (for using alignment sticks while doing allowable practice during his round) in that they were both taken out of the routine and that was enough to cause the brain-fart.  So I agree with your first comment.

Right.  The bold is basically all I was getting at.

[Shindig]

FWIW, I remember a story about Jack Nicklaus finding one of his kids' clubs in his bag a few holes into a tournament and getting a "too many clubs" penalty.

I've heard it as Johnny Miller finding his son's club, back when said son was like 2-3 years old. But yes, it has a clubhead, it has a shaft, it has a grip, it's a club, and he took the penalty. Nicklaus had an extra club in [i]his son's[/i] bag once, when caddying (possibly other times, including his own bag, existed). He had brought an iron he could use for some reason (demonstrate something in warm-up, etc) and counted clubs by checking for everything, so he missed that two 4-irons were in the bag. Anyway, I'm always surprised when players don't know [i]established[/i] rules. If a rule has changed recently (happens frequently in other sports), I get that they might think it was something different, and break it unintentionally.

[turtleback]

I've heard it as Johnny Miller finding his son's club, back when said son was like 2-3 years old. But yes, it has a clubhead, it has a shaft, it has a grip, it's a club, and he took the penalty.

Nicklaus had an extra club in his son's bag once, when caddying (possibly other times, including his own bag, existed). He had brought an iron he could use for some reason (demonstrate something in warm-up, etc) and counted clubs by checking for everything, so he missed that two 4-irons were in the bag.

Anyway, I'm always surprised when players don't know established rules. If a rule has changed recently (happens frequently in other sports), I get that they might think it was something different, and break it unintentionally.

Yeah, I think you are right - on further reflection, it was Miller.  I probably had also heard the Nicklaus one and just conflated them.  But now I think I read the story in Johnny Miller's book.