Putting your ball on the green is usually a good thing and a safe place in golf. But for Seung-Yul Noh, this year’s winner of the Zurich Classic, landing his ball on a putting surface during the second round of The Barclays led to a two-stroke penalty.
Seung-Yul Noh penalized for playing golf ball off wrong green at The Barclays
A free drop turns into a two-shot penalty when Seung-Yul Noh takes a full rip right off the putting surface.
Standing on the 11th tee, Noh bombed his drive off the hole. The ball eventually came to rest on the third green, which abutted the hole Noh was supposed to be playing. This happens with regularity for us weekend hacks, and we just run up, grab our ball and get the hell out of the way.
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But Noh decided to play it at its original spot, addressing the ball and then taking a full cut right off the third green. He didn’t exactly pick it either, excavating a chunk of the putting surface and spraying smaller divot bits too.
As those course maintenance officials used whatever that device was to try to repair the green, Noh got the bad news that he had just committed a penalty. Landing on another green triggers automatic free relief, so he should have taken a drop nearby without penalty. The decision to play it, however, cost him two shots and led to a triple-bogey 7.
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