Lowry's Controversial Two-Stroke Penalty in Golf Explained

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00:00this is obviously uh the hot pressing thing right now uh throughout the golf world and that was this

00:05lowry two shot penalty uh that he was given here so obviously you know that i'm always invested in

00:12some way in the irish bear even not just outright 10s 20s etc um look i see both sides of this i get

00:19it i think two's probably a little too much i don't know why it can't just be one stroke i've

00:23seen some people online mention how you know these guys get all this relief from sprinklers and and

00:28walls and everything else throughout here and you you bang this guy two shots for something that you

00:32didn't even see happen your thoughts on the lowry two shot penalty today on 12. mike good afternoon

00:39on a friday pleasure to be with you and what it comes down to is it's the rule the rule is the

00:44rule if you may cause the ball to move then you get a two-stroke penalty you know i mean i i know that

00:49on social media there's no rules and there's no rules at coldplay concerts but the fact of the

00:53matter is usga and rna rules apply you go out there you cause the ball to move now here's the

00:59thing what's unfortunate about that is that sometimes you don't know that you cause the ball to move

01:04but in this particular case everyone saw the ball move i know you saw the ball move um yes you know

01:12shane's sentiment to the press pool afterwards is basically like he knows that he has to take the

01:18penalty it's just that i mean it was pouring rain they're playing in the pouring rain i'm sure that's

01:23why the ball slid amongst the grass blades otherwise the ball doesn't move but it just is what it is it's

01:29unfortunate he goes from 17th place to tied for 34th and he basically his tournament is over um

01:35they're at home i'm sure he you know he put a lot of pressure on himself to perform but you never know

01:40he shot 63 on a saturday last time there he could do it again i would gladly take a 63 from him tomorrow

01:46if he would like to throw that out there uh going out a little bit earlier now uh after his two

01:51stroke penalty that's for sure