At the Nexo Championship of the DP World Tour in Scotland a few weeks ago, the 27-year-old English Pro Sam Bairstow withdrew after the first round under mysterious circumstances. Bairstow had signed for a 5 on the Par-4 14th Hole on the old course of Trump International Golf on the left when he actually made a 7. When the error was brought to Bairstow’s attention, this after he had signed for a one-over 73-he disqualified himself.
Scoring errors in the highest ranks of the game are unusual, but certainly not unprecedented; Under many other examples of the blunder, Jordan Spieth came out of the Genesis Invitational last year when he signed after his second round for a bogey on the par-3 4th instead of a par. (“I take full responsibility,” he tweeted later.) According to report At the time, the miscalculation of Bairstow was caused by a provisional tee shot that he had beaten at 14, but exactly what had happened was unclear.
But on Friday a video that was obtained and divided by the Telegraph‘s James Corrigan throw new light on the expulsion of Bairstow.
The telephone video, shot by a fan, shows Bairstow standing on a seriously pit -lying lying on the 14th hole, with his ball far above his feet and stuck on top of Gnarly rough. While Bairstow is preparing to play his shot, his ball moves clearly and falls into a worse lie in the long grass.
In view of the actions of Bairstow apparently caused the ball, according to the rules of Golf, he should have replaced the ball at his original resting place and accepted a one -off fine. He didn’t do it. He played through the new resting place of the ball and made what he thought was a bogey 5.
According to Corrigan reportThe fan shared the Bairstow video with DP tour officials, who asked Bairstow about the incident after his round. Bairstow, who is in 210th place in the world, denied a misconduct for the first time, Corrigan reported, but when he presented the images, he agreed to and later DQ’ed himself.
That was perhaps the end of the story, but it wasn’t, because, said Corrigan, the video started to circulate between players and Caddies, who were not too impressed by Bairstow’s apparently deliberate neglect for the rules.
That fear led to a hearing of the DP World Tour, which, the Tour, said in a statement, Bairstow “said in violation of the DP World Tour’s Code of Conduct and Punished accordingly. The player has a period of assessment to appeal against the sanction.”
The Tour did not disclose the sanction, but Corrigan reported that Bairstow was fined from a Tour-Maximum € 25,000.
You can read the full Telegraph report here.
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