For all THE PLAYERS | THE GRQ PODCAST EP33

Episode 33  - For all THE PLAYERS  

GRQotW32 
Player A walks the course on the morning of their individual stroke round. During this process they are holding and swinging a golf club, placing their feet in positions on the fairway and putting greens they are about to play, no ball was placed on the ground. They arrive at the tee just before their starting time, and say to Player B, before either of them play ‘it is very wet out there, probably best that you hit the ball low to keep it from embedding itself and potentially being lost. On this first hole, I would take the line close to the right trees.’ Player A incurs how many penalty strokes?  Player A incurs no penalties.  The player did not practice on the course before their round. Walking the course and simulating a stance is not considered practice.  Players are welcome to share advice before they start their round. Such advice would be seen as strategy, and there is no limit to that.  

Bubba loses ball after golf cart is driven over it
Ted Scott via Twitter: Hit our ball next to the path near a cart.  Guy moves cart, runs over ball. Ball cannot be found.  One hole later, someone digs it up and tells us they found it.  

Hovland has helping hand from camera-operator - https://youtu.be/-qo2ZP09tUM
Viktor Hovland hit his ball into a penalty area on the 11th hole, but wasn’t sure if it had crossed to the green-side of the penalty area before coming back into the water. A referee on the spot told him that there was no virtual certainty that the ball had crossed, and that it had more than likely hit the wooden retaining wall which was inside the penalty area. Hovland was just about to drop when someone who had been watching PGA Tour Live alerted the referee and showed everyone that the ball had in fact crossed on the green side.  

Hovland replaces ball in wrong spot - 15th hole - https://youtu.be/sJi7-Uz39qg
Viktor was asked by Justin Thomas to move his ball-marker out of the way of his line of putt. Viktor does so, but forgets to move it back, costing him a general penalty, but luckily no Disqualification.  

DeChambeau and Westwood hit their ball into different areas of same penalty area -  https://youtu.be/DqW5yPIHoCc
Bryson topped his ball off the 4th tee on Sunday at THE PLAYERS, and Lee followed up by hitting a wild slice right. Both balls went into a Red Penalty Area. Bryson took BACK-ON-THE-LINE relief and Lee choose the two cllub-length lateral drop.  

Massive IVOR
Covered Justin Rose Shank two weeks in a row
Listeners only want to GRQotW without asking further questions.  

Background Bingo
Rossco - Royal Park with Random Golf Club
Blakey - Glenmore Heritage Valley Golf Club  

GRQotW33 Fraser’s ball comes to rest on a gravel path in a yellow penalty area. There are some loose stones around his ball. Is Fraser able to get free relief from the stones?