Tiger Woods won the Player Championship on Sunday, but after taking a drop after hitting hi ball into the water on the 14th hole, some have said that he may have messed up again after dealing with a drop controversy at the Masters.
According to CBS Sports, Woods selected to drop where the ball "crossed over the margin of the hazard" based on the rules and he used the view of fellow golfer Casey Wittenberg and his caddy, who lined up where it crossed. Woods couldn't see where it crossed and it was left for Wittenberg to decide and the PGA said that since the point is "determined through best judgment" it was all on Wittenberg, but there's a chance it could have been off.
Sergio Garcia would have loved nothing more than sticking it to his longtime adversary Tiger Woods with a daring shot at the pin on the penultimate hole to win Sunday's Players Championship.
Garcia was tied for the lead at 13 under par with Woods, with whom he has feuded and traded barbs over an incident during their third-round pairing on Saturday, when the Spaniard headed to the tee on the 137-yard hole.
Woods had just parred the hole and was playing the difficult 18th.
The pin at 17 was on the right edge of the green, in spitting distance of the water's edge, but rather than aim for a safe landing, Garcia went for the kill.
Garcia said he decided not to hit from the drop area because it was a bad angle to the hole.
"So I thought, I'll just hit the same shot a little bit harder and I did, but a little bit of breeze picked up and it bounced on top and came back (in the water). The next one I hit a little bit harder and finally got on the green."
(Reuters Quotes)
