Exploring the Rules Behind Robert MacIntyre's Drop on the 16th

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00:00Here's what I want to just kind of explore with you a little bit is I am not saying at

00:07all this is Bobby Max ball for taking the drop. I think if you were a pro and you were

00:12not using the rules to your advantage, you are naive and or foolish. So I think he did

00:18the right thing and trying to position himself best to win this tournament. But how do we

00:23feel about this rule? And a when you're playing tournament golf, you hit the ball in a play

00:29place. You're entitled to relief. But the situation that the ball is being played from

00:36materially changes as a result of that drop. What are your feelings on that? Man, if there's

00:43a sprinkler head there and it's on my foot, I'm taking a drop. I don't care. I don't care

00:48how bad the lie is. It's you're entitled to a drop. I think the biggest issue that that

00:54rules guys have in whether it's grandstands that that block a ball, they go 40 yards compared

01:03to where it should have gone. I'm much more on that side of like that's not where the

01:07golf ball would have ended up in this situation. Listen, you're you're entitled. If you're

01:12if you're standing on a sprinkler head and if it's all let's say it was up next to the

01:16green and you had a nasty lie and next thing you know, you're let's say you're a yard away

01:22from being in the first fairway cut, you're taking a drop and next thing you get your

01:28putter out. It happens all the time. Now, I do feel like if you're let's say in that

01:37same situation that I'm talking about where your ball is green side, it's a nasty rough

01:42and you're standing on a sprinkler head and then you're able to get the ball onto the

01:45fringe or being able to get the putter out. I feel like it should stay in the same grass

01:51that it's in. Now, the situation that you're describing in the fescue, I haven't seen the

01:55video, but it sounds like he was already in that that area. I don't think you can replicate

02:02the lie. Maybe you could, but that's just so discretionary, right? Like you there's

02:07no way to be able for the guys in the group. But yep, that's the exact same lie that you

02:12had. So I'm I'm for the free relief, but I'm I'm also here for controversy as well. So

02:20if this gives us something to talk about, then fine. Yes. I mean, there's nothing like

02:25a good media created outrage that, you know, a bunch of people are yelling about and it's

02:29actually just not that big of a controversy at all. It's just like twelve people that

02:33are screaming into the void about it. I think it's like, why is there a sprinkler head there

02:37that that would be the question that is that is where my head went first. I was like, why

02:42is it there and why is it so buried? Is that a functional sprinkler head? And maybe should

02:46we look at maybe getting that removed at some point in time because I'm not sure that we're

02:49using that. I think you make a good point, too, about, you know, when people complain

02:56in any sport about the rules and the way they're written, you kind of you have to take the

03:01next step of, OK, well, how would you write them differently? And that's where I think

03:05we get hung up in this situation is, you know, it is completely arbitrary if he has the lie

03:11he has. And you're saying, well, you can't materially change or improve the lie. It's

03:16like, well, then who's going to be the person that goes in, takes it away from the sprinkler

03:20and then finds another part of the grass to put it into where there's not a material change?

03:25You know, it's you really can only write a rule to be as simple as you're standing on

03:30a thing that you shouldn't have to stand on. You get X amount of club lengths from where

03:35you're standing. And the method by which we're telling you to replace the ball is to drop

03:39it from your knee.