Freddy Schott threw to 8 feet and about 5 seconds later he extended his hand. He was your winner of the DP World Tour Bapco Energies Bahrain Championship.
To wait.
How?
The tournament Royal Golf Club was neither a match play event nor a pitching contest like you have with friends. The event was stroke play. It was played on a course of 7,347 meters.
So what gives?
A rarely used rule applied here. And a professional all over the map.
It all happened on the second hole of a playoff on Sunday. On the first hole, Schott And Calum Hill parred, with Patrick Reed making bogey, and the newest full-time DP World Tour pro finished as Schott and Hill continued to play. Hill then struggled. The Scot hit first and hooked his tee shot into the driving range and out of bounds, and his third shot found the first rough cut on the left side of the hole. More problems followed. On his follow-up to shot four, he threw his iron into the ground behind him. His ball had gone the right way – and off the video board, straight off the green.
“Hosel rocket,” an announcer said on the Golf Channel broadcast. “Oh my god. That’s going to sting.”
“Every professional golfer’s nightmare,” said another announcer.
Indeed. After a drop he now hit six. Schott, meanwhile, hit the right side of the fairway with his tee shot, and the German’s second shot ended up on the rough right side of the green. At this point the announcers began to wonder: could Hill give in?
“I don’t think he’s allowed,” the first announcer said.
“I think you’re right,” the second announcer said. “I think you have to take all the misery, drop it and tap on it.”
However, according to the Rules of Golf, according to committee procedures, there is an ‘out’. A concession is allowed. Procedure 7a (1) reads as follows:
“In a stroke play playoff between two players, if one of them is disqualified or concedes defeat, it is not necessary for the other player to complete the play-off hole or holes to be declared the winner.”
And that’s what was stated.
After Hill’s sixth shot found the green and Schott threw to 8 feet, Hill said he was done and the tournament was over. The players clapped hands and hugged each other. Rarely has a stroke play tournament ended this way, but it can happen.
“It looks like it’s been conceded,” a Golf Channel announcer said.
“I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that before.”
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