Unknown TGL rule appears in Tiger Woods-Rory McIlroy Duel

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Josh Schrock




Tiger Woods, Kevin Kisner and Tom Kim interact after a hole during their TGL match on Monday.

A Bisarr TGL decision made its first performance on Monday night and gave us questions to be answered.

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The fourth evening of TGL was an evening of firsts.

Not only did the showdown between Rory McIlroy’s Boston Common Golf and Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Golf Club gave us our first tio decision in Simulator League (not a joke), but it also gave us our first glimpse of one of the high-tech leagues unique rules .

Kevin Kisner hit his tee -shot on par 3 -femth hole to the top of a back on the rear of the green. On the simulator, the ball stopped on the slope, much to Kisner’s chagrin. But when Jupiter Links went to place the ball on that part of the green, they surprisingly couldn’t make it stop.

“We got the snake out of nine meters there,” Kisner said as he tried to get the ball to stop on the slope.

This enabled Jupiter -Links to place the ball in another place on the green, which according to the rules expert Mark Russell in a “position not near the hole.”

“Since the player couldn’t get his ball to rest, he had to go to a position that was nowhere near the hole where it would rest. So that’s what they did. Just got down the slope and placed it in a position that was nowhere near. “

Boston and Jupiter ended up tying the hole, but the ruling points out an early problem with TGL – the technology has not always been the place. Given where Kisner’s ball landed on the simulator, it should have rolled down the slope. It is something that the league must be able to clean up when it gets started.

It also puts the high -tech green and its severity under the limelight. For three weeks we have seen some of the world’s best golfers fight with the speed of the green, and often fail to stop a 20-foot putt within 5 meters. While Kisner’s ball should have returned to the simulator, the fact that they were unable to place the ball, even near the landing site, shows how smooth TGL’s green is and how it may need to be fine -tuned in the future.

All in all, Monday night was a better evening for TGL when the league’s two needle-mover added some juice and entertainment to a product that has had its ups and downs in the first three weeks.