Rory McIlroy’s apparent tardiness during a putt attempt has angered fans. Some claim the golfer took more than ten seconds to approach his ball before it dropped into the hole.
Fans of golf are furious with Rory McIlroy for making a contentious call on the opening day of the Valero Texas Open.
When McIlroy attempted a putt and the ball hung on the edge of the hole, it appeared that he waited more than ten seconds to make a shot. A golfer is “allowed a reasonable time” to reach the hole and an additional one-and-a-half seconds to determine if the ball will fall into the hole if any portion of the ball overhangs the hole’s lip, as per USGA rule 13.3.
The player will also have holed out on the previous stroke if the ball drops into the hole during the waiting period. On the other hand, the ball is considered to be at rest if it does not fall during the waiting period.
The player will have holed out with the previous stroke if the ball drops before it is played, but their score will be reduced by one stroke. Many golf fans think McIlroy ought to have been punished for appearing to take longer than the allotted ten seconds to reach his ball.
A fan commented, “That was 12 seconds,” after watching the McIlroy putt video. Over the ten seconds that were allocated. Better go back and give Austin Eckroat the same one-stroke penalty that they applied to him two weeks ago.”
“Well, I support counting (duh), but I’m pretty sure Si Woo experienced this a few years ago and was informed that it was a one-stroke penalty after ten seconds,” a different fan commented.
The golf star took more than ten seconds to reach his ball, as many fans have generally noticed. Some have even gone so far as to call the 34-year-old “cheated.” Even so, there was no official time given because fans disagreed about how long the ball stayed on the lip; estimates ranged from nine to fifteen seconds.
In any case, McIlroy wants to return to the level of competition he is confident in his ability to perform at. Having struggled at The Players, McIlroy withdrew from the Houston Open and Valspar Championship, and said he spoke with Butch Harmon, Tiger Woods’s former coach, to get back on track.
“Since I first met Butch at the age of 14, our relationship has always been positive. Before the Texas Open, McIlroy declared, “If there’s one guy I want to go and get a second opinion from, it’s him.” “I realized that I’m clearly missing something after watching The Players and having trouble with both my swing and some of my iron misses during that Florida Swing.
McIlroy continued by saying that Harmon’s remarks had “resonated” with him and that their talks had been helpful. “I found resonance in a few things he said to me,” the Northern Irishman recalled. “With my coach, Michael (Bannon), I’ve been trying to accomplish the same things, but he kind of just put it in a different way that might have resonated with me a little bit more.
“I think I’ve done some good work since then; it was a really worthwhile trip. As I mentioned, this week is a good time to assess my progress with that work.”
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