Golf is a gentleman’s game, and as such, there are a lot of rules to follow.  There are rules regarding course conduct, ball placement, replacing divots, and any number of things that, in a different sport, might just get ignored.  However, golfers score their own cards and, as such, are expected to report everything.  Unfortunately, the vagueness of the rules sometimes causes problems, and a vague rule just cost Dustin Johnson a shot at the PGA Championship.

Johnson, who was leading going into the final round, had imploded.  He shot a massive 83, yet he was still in contention for the PGA title.  He made his putt and was ready to head to the playoff round with co-leaders Martin Kaymer and Bubba Watson.  Unfortunately for Johnson, PGA official David Price told Johnson he’d committed a foul by grounding his club in a bunker.  According to the rules at Whistling Straits, everything remotely close to a hazard is a bunker.

“Walking up and seeing the shot, never once did it cross my mind it was in a sand trap,” Johnson said.  “I just thought it was on a piece of dirt the crowd had trampled down.  Never thought it was a sand trap.  I looked at it a lot, never once thought it was a bunker.”  That two-stroke penalty knocked Johnson from first place and the playoff hole to the showers and parking lot in an instant.

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