Why was camillo disqualified

If the ball had rolled up against an impediment, that's a tougher shot; Villegas was, in theory, making it easier for him to take his next shot. It should have been a two-stroke penalty, but amazingly, apparently nobody at the tournament site or from the PGA Tour noticed the violation.

Still, it could have ended there, were it not for the other fascinating aspect of this story -- the role social media played in fanning the flames. Writer Dave Andrews , among others, noticed the violation and reported it to the tour and the Golf Channel, and from there, it became a Very Big Story.

The reason, you see, is that if Villegas didn't take the requisite two-stroke penalty, he thus signed an incorrect scorecard And that's exactly what happened. There's a long history of golf viewers having a direct impact on competition by serving as another pair of eyes.

In , Craig Stadler was booted from a tournament after a viewer called to complain that Stadler's use of a towel to protect his knees while kneeling for a particularly awkward shot was an illegal construction of a stance; he'd finished second in the tournament but got nothing.

And in at the Doral Ryder Open, a viewer ratted out Paul Azinger for moving a loose stone as he took a stance to hit a ball out of shallow water; moving loose impediments in a hazard is illegal, and Azinger got yanked from the tournament.

And in , a viewer called in to charge that Juli Inkster should not have been using a training aid during the Safeway Classic , and the LPGA later disqualified her. He came over and saw it and knew right away. Kind of a rough way to celebrate one's birthday; Villegas turned 29 Friday. Still, two questions persist: 1.

Should fans have the right to influence the play on the course, and 2. Should Villegas be DQ'd after the fact? More to the point: If we're going to have a nation of millions second-guessing every move by the pros, doesn't that unfairly penalize the players who are on TV most often, and thus under more scrutiny? He skipped the Hyundai, but Oosthuizen notched a victory in his homeland at the Africa Open, his first title since capturing the Open Championship last July.

Robert Garrigus. It's tough to knock a guy for finishing second, but the guess here is that the long-hitting Garrigus rues his missed opportunity on the first playoff hole, which had proved to be an easy birdie hole for him during the tournament.

Armchair rules officials. It still is amazing that players -- in the latest case, Camilo Villegas -- get disqualified because somebody noticed something on television that wasn't picked up by anyone on site.

Only Els has won both tournaments in the same year. Byrd won his last start in Las Vegas by making a hole-in-one in a playoff. He shot his age that day to earn a spot in the field.

He last played in a PGA Tour event at age Eichelberger won six times on the Champions Tour. He was granted a sponsor exemption. Matsuyama won the Asian Amateur in October, thus qualifying for the Masters. Parnevik's season was cut short due to back issues that threatened his career. They took the top three spots in a player qualifier at Kingston Heath. Kulacz bested Stephen Leaney -- runner-up at the U. Open -- in a playoff for the final spot. This year's Open is at Royal St. Next week the tour moves to the Middle East and Abu Dhabi for the first of four tournaments.

You walk around the range and you think you're on a different tour. Catching up with last year's champ It was a strange year for Ryan Palmer in After capturing the Sony Open for his third career PGA Tour title, Palmer endured some maddening fits of poor play, at one point missing 10 of 11 cuts. Although he was near the bottom at East Lake, just by getting there meant he would be exempt for the first three major championships this season.

He finished 23rd in the final FedEx Cup standings. Birdies And Bogeys. Solution for Villegas' DQ shouldn't be this hard. However Slugger White, the PGA Tour's vice president of rules and competition, did not hear about the possible infringement until Thursday evening and was only able to review television footage the following morning.

Three-times major champion Ernie Els suggested the introduction of a deadline beyond which golfers could not be disqualified from a tournament. If you sign your card, it's done and you can't do anything about it. If somebody wants to call in, you''ve got to do it before we are done playing "Maybe we should have some kind of a rule Instead, he completed his round and was therefore disqualified from the PGA Tour''s season-opening event for signing an incorrect scorecard. The winner in , and again five years later, was shown the door after it emerged he was wearing steel spikes at Woodmont Country Club in Maryland.

This violated a club rule which meant he was unable to play the second round of the hole qualifying event at the Rockville course. Janzen had fired a 75 in his opening round and would have had to shoot a 61 on his second circuit anyway to force his way into a sudden-death play-off.