Patrick Reed was attacked on Saturday during the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open for using the built-in 10th hole golf rule.
Reed was in the par 4 hole when his second shot fell short of the green. Reed said at the time that his ball hit the impact and asked his playing partners and caddies if they had seen the ball bounce and everyone said no. According to the PGA Tour rules, he was able to lift the ball to see if it was embedded and he would determine if it was.
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He asked a PGA Tour official to confirm him as such. According to the Golf Channel, the official confirmed the ball embedded in the impact and allowed Reed to take relief. He would open the hole.
Under the rule, golfers can get rid of a situation where “your ball gets stuck in the general area, which includes all points on the course other than the tee field, putting surfaces, bunkers and hazards”, from according to Golf News Net. The ball is considered inlaid if it is on a field mark made by a golfer’s previous shot and is below ground level.
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If it is confirmed that the ball is embedded, a player can remove it from the location and place it a club away from a new location, but no closer to the hole. The player can get a new lie. Reed, in this case, was allowed to take the relief.
“At this point, we just followed what the Rules official said and also what the volunteers and what we see,” said Reed after his round. “Because it’s one of those things that when we’re out there, we can’t see everything, and when that happens, you have to follow what the volunteers say, what the rules officials say, and when it comes to pushing and pushing, we feel that we did the right thing and the rules official said we did it absolutely perfectly. And with that, we moved on and kept playing. “
Reed would hit the drums with the move, but he would later tweet that Rory McIlroy did the same thing on the 18th hole.
“RORY MCILROY @ McIlroyRory DID THE SAME THING IN HOLE 18 TODAY! AND DON’T CALL OFFICIAL RULES TO CONSIDER THE BALL INCLUDED. END OF HISTORY,” he wrote.
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Reed ended the round tied for first with Carlos Ortiz 10 under par.