Putter grips lead to wild disqualification at some stage in U.S. Amateur Four-Ball quarterfinals
The Principles of Golf strike again.
A pair of Cincinnati males’s golf teammates had been disqualified at some stage in the quarterfinals of the 2022 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Wednesday for an obscure equipment violation: non-conforming putter grips.
“Earlier than this morning’s resumption of the quarterfinal match between Evan Beck/Dan Walters and Ty Gingerich/Cole Harris, it was as soon as delivered to our attention that Gingerich had worn a non-conforming putter grip in violation of Section 2, 3c of the Equipment Principles,” learn a USGA assertion. “The violation resulted in a disqualification.”
Play had been suspended attributable to darkness on Tuesday night, pushing the completion of the quarterfinals to Wednesday morning. Gingerich and Harris, sophomores at Cincinnati, trailed Beck and Walters by one gap at the Nation Membership of Birmingham with factual two holes remaining. One other shot wasn’t hit, as Gingerich was as soon as informed of the violation sooner than play resumed Wednesday morning.
Principles teach that grips ought to be as a minimal 1½ inches apart. The 2 grips on Gingerich’s 39.5-sail putter had been decrease than an sail apart.
The workforce of Beck and Walters evolved to the semifinals, the put they’d lose to Drew Kittleson and Drew Stoltz, 2 and 1. The Drews then misplaced to Chad Wilfong and Davis Womble in the final in 19 holes.
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