But Tucker may have been referencing Rule 16.1, which covers animal holes and “abnormal course conditions” more generally. To get relief from a hole, under this rule, the animal hole would have had to affect his lie, stance or swing. "So there was just discussion there and he didn't think it was necessary for a drop. He is a Williamstown, Mass., native and a 2014 graduate of Williams College, where he majored in English. So I'm always going to respect the officials and go, 'OK, no issue, that's fine.' "I mean, it doesn't interfere with your stance anyway," Tackett said. Now, DeChambeau has fumed over having to hit a shot near a colony of fire ants. "At that point, Tackett asked DeChambeau to take his stance as if he was going to hit his second shot. 7 on Thursday.Golfers don’t particularly like seeing fire ants on the course. Dethier is the author of GOLF.com and GOLF Magazine are published by EB GOLF MEDIA LLC, a division of 8AM GOLFBryson DeChambeau, fire ants and the ‘Dangerous Animal Rule,’ explained He called PGA Tour rules official Ken Tackett to the scene, and then spent nearly three minutes trying to convince him that he was allowed a free drop under the rules. "USGA rule 16.2.a, the "Dangerous Animal Condition" rule, would permit DeChambeau to take relief. He ended up taking a double-bogey 6 on the hole. Bryson DeChambeau Demanded a Drop From a Rules Official Because of Fire Ants Bryson DeChambeau was involved in more controversy on Thursday during the WGC-FedEX St. … "I see the color difference," Tackett said. DeChambeau, whose Bridgestone had settled in an unfortunate position atop a stick, said he was stepping on an ant and had noticed some holes nearby.While Tackett acknowledged he saw a couple ants, he wasn’t sure that they were fire ants “in the sense that they would be a dangerous situation.”“There’s a red ant coming out of it, right there. Once you’re looking for relief, the more ants the better, no matter the format.Ken Tackett, PGA Tour rules official, arrived on the scene. His tee shot came to rest on a few small sticks near the base of a tree.DeChambeau was convinced his ball was sitting near a hill of fire ants -- or a burrowing animal hole. The six-time Tour winner is apparently no match for a few fire ants.In Thursday's opening round of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational at TPC Southwind, DeChambeau hit his tee shot into the trees down the left side of the par-4, 481-yard seventh hole. ""I don't see anything that would identify as to what it is to know that it's an animal hole," Tackett said.
Asked him and he was like, well, 'It's got to be, you know, kind of endangering you.' Bryson DeChambeau argued with an official at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational to no avail Thursday that his ball landed near a hill of fire ants at the seventh hole and he could take relief. Bryson DeChambeau vs. fire ants is so 2020. "What is this thing? "DeChambeau ended up taking a double-bogey 6 on the hole. The rule says, "A 'dangerous animal condition' exists when a dangerous animal (such as poisonous snakes, stinging bees, alligators, fire ants or bears) near a ball could cause serious physical injury to the player if he or she had to play the ball as it lies. To quote the rule:Tackett tested this theory briefly. "Tackett was the same rules official who was on the scene when DeChambeau found one of his lost balls under a metal fence on the par-5 15th hole at Muirfield during the second round of the Memorial. And I was, just an anthill. Is what it is. That was that.DeChambeau played away from his poor lie, carefully avoiding sticks and roots with his next swing, and went on to make double bogey. Tackett was the official on the scene there, too, where DeChambeau Bryson DeChambeau + Fire Ants + burrowing animal hole = GOLD on a CBS Sports HQ live look-in.
Bryson DeChambeau hoped to get relief from a bad lie on No. When he went to inspect his ball, he saw that it was sitting near what he called a fire ant hill. DeChambeau unsuccessfully argued that his ball was still in bounds and asked for a second opinion, which was the same.DeChambeau stomped off, made a quintuple-bogey 10 on the hole and missed the cut. In doing so, he dropped back to 2 under for the day, further off the pace set by Brooks Koepka.On the bright side, he didn’t seem to have sustained any ant stings.Dylan Dethier is a senior writer for GOLF Magazine/GOLF.com, where he’s told the story of a strange cave in Mexico, a U.S. Open qualifier in Alaska and plenty in between. "It was here and then it scrummed up over here. The term “burrowing animal hole” was actually wiped from the rule book during the USGA and R&A’s latest modification to golf’s rules.
"It's a different color. But every now and then, those sneaky devils could actually bail you out.That’s why Bryson DeChambeau called over a rules official on Thursday while playing the par-4 7th hole at TPC Southwind: To see if he could get relief from what he thought might be an anthill.
"Anything right there?" "Yeah, that was weird," he said. "So there was discolored dirt and I saw a couple red ants there and I was thinking, hmm, anthill, may get something or whatnot. Bryson DeChambeau argued with an official at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational to no avail Thursday that his ball landed near a hill of fire ants at the seventh hole and he could take relief. He birdied the ninth hole, his final hole of the round, to finish 3-under 67.After his round, DeChambeau didn't seem to disagree with the ruling. A couple of them,” DeChambeau said, pointing out a few crawlers unfortunately too small for Golf Channel’s cameras to pick up.But why the search for fire ants (or a “dangerous situation”) to begin with, you might be asking? "Tackett kneeled down and closely examined the dirt. During the first round of the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational on Thursday, DeChambeau complained to rules officials that red fire ants were in his stance on … Dethier joined GOLF in 2017 after two years scuffling on the mini-tours.
Phil Mickelson missed the cut last week at The Northern Trust at TPC Boston last weekend and failed … There's two of them. "It is or it isn't," DeChambeau complained, "and there's a red ant coming out of it, a couple of them. Or ant hole. It looks like an ant hole -- or ant area.
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