Lee Ann Walker gets 58 penalty shots for breaking new rule over caddie
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Because she found not keeping up to date with rule changes could be pricey lee Ann Walker received 58 penalty shots.
The American broke a guideline brought in this year prohibiting caddies.
Her playing partners reported the error on the hole of her second round and she had to return over her holes to tally up her infringements.
Now I dont play with the LPGA anymore, I dont watch golf, she said.
Walker, who advised officers when she was advised of her errors, had 42 shots added to her round and 16 more to her 85.
It was no surprise that she completed bottom of this field and also her 2 rounds of 127 and 90 added up to 217 – three over the four rounds of winner Helen Alfredsson.
That is my very first competitive round because 2011 or 2012, Walker told Golfweek.
I knew there were rules adjustments. I just honestly did not know them. Just simple and plain. My stupidity for not going through the rules changes.
I wasnt mad, I wasnt upset. I was like,that is going to add a lot to my scores. At that point what can you do?
Later he was lined with his own caddie in the green during the final round of the Dubai Desert Classic Back in January, Chinas Haotong Li was penalised two shots.
Meanwhile, the Englishman Paul Casey stopped if a putt at a tournament he won in Germany with one shot went over a bug on the way in, being penalised.
Since the ball of Casey accidentally went across the insect he did not need to retake the shot.
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