12 of the Most abnormal Punishments in Golf History

Numerous irregular standards circumstances emerge all the time on the fairway. Not even the best golfers on the planet are resistant from crackpot rules situations and uncommon punishments. Or, on the other hand from the cerebrum solidifies that occasionally prompt those punishments.

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THE MAJOR CHAMPION FINED FOR ... FARTING

Tommy Jolt's epithet was "Shocking Tommy" in light of his scandalous on-course temper. Jolt had fits and he tossed clubs, and it was a piece of the show. 

Also, his notoriety built up, it was a show. Jolt once watched, "Dependably toss your clubs in front of you. That way you don't need to waste vitality backpedaling to lift them up." 

Jolt won the 1958 U.S. Open, and after one year he satisfied another of his monikers: "Thunder" Jolt. 

At the 1959 Memphis Invitational Open (what today is known as the FedEx-St. Jude Great), Jolt felt a sudden ... intestinal inclination. Furthermore, not one to hold his, ahem, sentiments in, Jolt let tear with a powerful wind. 

Noisy tooting was, alongside club-tossing, something of a propensity with Jolt. In any case, this time, visit authorities had seen - and listened, and noticed - enough. 

Taking after the round, Jolt was evaluated a $250 fine for "direct unbecoming an expert golfer." Making Tommy Jolt the main golfer in PGA Visit history (to the extent anybody knows) punished for flatulating.

 

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DQ FOR MISSING TEE TIME ... BY TEEING OFF EARLY

Loads of golfers have been punished or excluded all through the historical backdrop of professional golf for missing their tee times. Be that as it may, that quite often implies the golfer appeared late (or not in any manner).

Quite often. 

At the 1940 U.S. Open, various players - six golfers in all - start right on time in the last round. They saw a climate report that showed rain was headed. Rather than sitting tight for their booked tee times, they chose, hello, why not simply begin now? What's more, they did, starting around 30 minutes before their recorded tee times. 

The choice cost one of them a spot in a playoff. 

The six golfers were Ky Laffoon, Claude Harmon, Johnny Bulla, Porky Oliver, Dutch Harrison and Duke Gibson. 

It was Ed "Porky" Oliver who lost a spot in the playoff. Oliver completed at 287, tying Gene Sarazen and Lawson Little. In any case, when the round was over, the USGA excluded Oliver and the other five early starters.

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THE US OPEN WINNER THREATENED WITH JAIL OVER SLOW PLAY

In 1924, Cyril Walker won the U.S. Open. In 1929, he was dragged away by cops for declining to accelerate his play at the Los Angeles Open. 

This story is so fascinating we have a different article about it, however the significance is this: Walker, a horrendously moderate golfer, was advised to accelerate amid the 1929 L.A. Open. He can't. 

Competition authorities precluded him. Walker kept appropriate on playing. He declined to leave the course. So authorities sent two policemen onto the course, who actually grabbed Walker and took him away. Return, the cops cautioned, and Walker would be tossed behind bars. 

That is a significant DQ!

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THE LEGEND WHO TIN CUPPED HIS WAY TO A 23 ON ONE HOLE

Punishments for hitting too far out are standard. However, when it's a 3-time real champ, a Hall of Famer, a legend of the diversion - and when he continues doing it, again and again, Tin Cup-style - that is peculiar. 

At the 1927 Shawnee Open, Tommy Armor chose he needed to jump start on a specific gap not by pointing down the fairway, but rather by playing a major draw: swinging the ball out to one side and moving it once again into the fairway. 

So Armor - who was, Peter Alliss has expressed, "a headstrong and frequently stiff-necked player" - did only that. His initially drive didn't draw, and arrived outside the alloted boundaries. So did his second endeavor. Furthermore, his third. 

Covering simply continued onward, thumping 10 sequential drives outside the alloted boundaries, before at long last abandoning that entire "think I'll play a draw" arrange. After all the punishment strokes, he ended up with a score of 23 - the most elevated known score on a solitary gap in PGA Tour history.

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THEN THERE WAS THE 35 ON ONE HOLE

Kel Nagle, British Open champ, Hall of Famer, once had a 35 on a solitary gap. Yet, Nagle didn't really take 35 strokes. 

It was the 1969 Alcan Golfer of the Year Championship, a worldwide occasion that was played a few times in the late 1960s. In the second round, Nagle scored a 70 - 35 on the front nine, 35 on the back nine. 

Be that as it may, when his marker recorded Nagle's score, he erroneously composed the front-nine 35 in the space where Nagle's ninth-gap score ought to have gone. 

Nagle marked the scorecard without getting the blunder, and the 35 on the ninth opening stood. Rather than 70, Nagle's score was 105.

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WHEN A PRACTICE-SWING DIVOT HITS YOUR GOLF BALL

Man, that is gotta harmed. Yet, it's happened several times as of late on the expert visits. 

What precisely happened? An ace golfer took a work on swing, and the work on swing uncovered a divot. The divot flew forward and struck the golfer's golf ball. 

Oopsie. That is a one-stroke punishment. 

It occurred on the Web.com Tour to Hudson Swafford at the 2013 Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship (video on YouTube) and to Justin Rose at the 2013 BMW Championship (video on YouTube). 

You'll see those two punishments happened that year. Far and away superior: They occurred on back to back days, first to Rose on the PGA Tour, the following day to Swafford on the Web.com Tour.

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PENALIZED FOR PUTTING WITH THE WRONG END OF THE PUTTER

In the third round of the 1983 Canadian Open, PGA Tour player Andy Bean was left with a tap-in putt on the fifteenth green. Messing about, he flipped his putter topsy turvy and thumped the ball in with the grasp end of the putter. 

No, Andy, no. You can't do that. The Rules of Golf express that the ball must be hit at with the leader of the club. 

Two-stroke punishment. Bean at that point went out in the last round the following day and tied the course record with a 62. He completed in fourth place. 

What number of strokes behind? You got it: two. 

"Yes, I am stupid," Bean said after the mistake. "What would I be able to state, an imbecilic misstep is a stupid slip-up."

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2-STROKE PENALTY FOR GOING TO THE BATHROOM

This one occurred at the 2017 NCAA Women's Championship, where the golfers are not permitted to ride in a truck amid the stipulated round. 

Be that as it may, two golfers truly needed to go tinkle. So each bounced a truck in the wake of completing an opening and rode to the closest on-course restroom. 

The golfers being referred to were Sarah Cho of Northwestern and Kelly Nielsen of Kent State. They were playing in a similar gathering, and Cho went by the potty in the wake of playing No. 18 (her ninth opening), Nielson after No. 13. 

In any case, with regards to the utilization of trucks, regardless of how awful you gotta go, no methods no. 

The NCAA hit both players with 2-stroke punishments.

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AN EXPENSIVE BLADE OF GRASS

At the 1992 Swedish Open, Steve Elkington hit his ball into a fortification, which is a danger. That implies no testing of the ground, no moving or expelling of obstructions. 

Yet, while sitting tight for a kindred contender to play, and feeling kinda eager, Elk absentmindedly come to down and culled a piece of turf from inside the risk. He set it between his lips and continued to bite away on it. 

A principles official happened to be close-by, happened to see Elkington's activity, and happened to survey a stroke punishment. 

Said Elkington, "My stomach caused my cerebrum not to work quickly." 

What's more, how's this for incongruity: Elkington is adversely affected by grass. 

(Not by any means the only odd episode Elkington's been included in. He once appeared in metal spikes for a U.S. Open sectional qualifier, having not perused the standards sheet that educated members of the host course's no-metal-spikes arrangement. Instead of progress shoes, Elk had a hissy tantrum and raged out. He was DQ'd when he didn't appear for his tee time.)

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RAY FLOYD'S PENALTY FOR HITTING A DRIVE INTO HIS OWN GOLF BAG

By what method can a golfer hit a crash into his own particular golf pack? You're presumably envisioning a player whose club almost passes totally under a teed ball, popping the ball straight open to question. At that point, possibly, a solid blast of wind drives the ball back, or to the side, and it thuds down into the golfer's pack. 

That would be a stupendous outcome, however it's not how Hall of Famer Raymond Floyd twisted up punished two strokes for hitting into his own golf pack. 

The first round of the 1987 Players Championship was hindered by rain. At the point when the horn sounded halting play, Floyd's caddie strolled ahead on the eleventh opening and dropped the golf pack in the unpleasant, beside the region he figured Floyd's ball would arrive in the fairway. 

At the point when play continued, Floyd took a driver and golf ball to the tee and jump started. Also, his ball limited into the harsh and moved directly into his own particular golf pack, which the caddie had left with its open end indicating back the tee.

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ALWAYS READ THE RULE SHEET, RIGHT RYUJI?

At the 2010 Mission Hills Star Trophy competition in China, competition authorities, following a day of rain, executed lift, clean and place rules. They put out a standards sheet for players clarifying that anybody moving a golf ball needed to place it inside the length of one scorecard from its unique position. 

Imada, tsk-tsk, didn't read the principles sheet. What's more, he expected that the PGA Tour standard for lift, clean and place - putting the ball inside one club-length - was being utilized. 

So that is the thing that he did: Imada grabbed his golf ball and supplanted it inside one club-length. Thirteen times by the twelfth gap. 

That is 13 2-stroke punishments, 26 punishment strokes add up to. His score for the round was 97. 

Continuously read the control sheet!

 

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AND DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER FOR THE TOURNAMENT!

In the first round of the 1998 Buick Open on the PGA Tour, P.H. Horgan III shot a 1-under 71. 

In the second round ... all things considered, there was no second round for Horgan. Taking after the first round, he was precluded. He had neglected to round out the enlistment shapes when he landed at the competition.