I assume you watched the video? Colin Montgomerie is a real clown. I sure wouldn't go to him to get a definition of "a fortunate win" at a major, considering that he's never had one, fortunate or not, and has missed the cut in majors more often than he has finished in the top 25.
Monty might be a bit of a dick, but he isn't a clown. Personally I found Watson's emotional moment endearing, but I can equally understand why others might not be impressed.
Which has nothing to do with whether last year's win by Watson was "fortunate" or not. Montgomerie clearly is a dick, but he has every right to not be impressed with the reaction and say so in response to a question from a reporter. Using that as an excuse to dismiss Watson's win from a year before as "fortunate" is ridiculous, and doing it when your own record in majors is, shall we say, unimpressive is a joke. Sorry, but IMO that makes him a grade A clown. I've always felt that the PGA/USGA's willingness to penalize people hours later, sometimes after some viewer has called in on the telephone, was pretty absurd, but the precedent is well-established. This isn't even a judgment call; Tiger clearly dropped in the wrong place, clearly should have been penalized, and clearly therefore signed an incorrect card. If they don't DQ him they are admitting that the rules don't apply to everyone. On the other hand, that would make it impossible to ever penalize someone in the future for these kinds of infractions (if I was penalized in the future after Tiger was not, I would immediately find a judge and get an injunction preventing them from DQing me), which would probably be a good thing.
That part is clear - they absolutely cannot not give him a penalty. The stickier issue is that technically he was supposed to have known that he was going to get that penalty (!), and therefore not signed the scorecard that turned out (a day later) to no longer be correct. Signing the wrong scorecard isn't just a penalty, it's a disqualification. It's ridiculous, but there is ample precedent for it.
what I don't understand is that the officials didn't catch him. If the officials missed it, didn't warn him about it, and let him sign his scorecard, isn't it on them for missing it?
Two fans made phone calls to the Masters about Tiger's thing last night around 10 pm and that caused them to review it...
How do people know the number to call in? Also that makes sense why they couldn't DQ him. They didn't bring the problem to it. He unknowingly signed an incorrect card that the official at the time said he did the correct thing. Weird rules, imagine if fans could call into other sports about missed calls
opening night of the nfl season, officials receive 18 million calls about a missed holding call on the first snap
For someone who is a stickler for rules ( tiger agreed with slow penalty on 14 year old) he should have Dq himself
