Rory McIlroy suffers bizarre two shot penalty for a rare golf rule #golf #pga

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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. – Rory McIlroy went from the top of the leaderboard to the bottom half of the field in a matter of a few holes Thursday at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, the victim of his own poor play and a misunderstanding of the rules that cost him another two strokes on his scorecard.

McIlroy, the No. 2 player in the world, reached six under par and was two shots clear of the field after 14 holes at Spyglass Hill Golf Course before a disastrous stretch compounded by a two-stroke penalty on the 549-yard par-five seventh hole.

McIlroy pulled his tee shot into the left rough underneath a tree and opted to take an unplayable lie. In taking relief, he walked back several yards away from the foliage in line with the hole, but he erred when he then dropped one club length to the right, which gave him a clear shot up the fairway. The rule change, initiated in 2023, stipulates that a dropped ball can come to rest within one club length in any direction—even forward. But the drop has to originate on a line from the flagstick, according to model local rule E-12 as part of modifications to rules 14.3b, 16.1c(2), and 17.1d(2).

Rory melroy’s first round at the at in t Pebble Beach Pro Am took a dramatic turn on Thursday as he incurred a two-stroke penalty on the seventh hole at spy glass Hill after hitting his t- shot left into thick rough he opted for Relief and declared an unplayable lie however

Misfortune struck when he mistakenly dropped the ball closer to the hole than its original position violating a recent rule change this infraction turned a potential bogey into a dreaded triple bogey instantly derailing his momentum and sending him tumbling down the leaderboard adding to the sting mroy expressed surprise at the penalty

Claiming unawareness of the recent rule update this unfortunate error proved costly leaving him battling from the middle of the pack instead of vying for the lead so I took an unplayable on seven um and I took it back online and then unbeknown to me the rule changed in

January 2023 where he used to be able to come back on line take a club length either side um that was changed in 2019 to be able to do that uh I wasn’t aware that that rule was changed again in 2023 so I took a drop um thinking of the 2019 rules when

Everything was sort of changed uh not knowing that the rule was changed again in 2023 so we got a two-stroke penalty there