MEDINAH, IL – A fan kicked a golf ball that flew out of bounds back on to the green, but on a college football Saturday, the kick was ruled no good.
After Canadian Nick Taylor hit his tee shot in the fairway at the second hole at Medinah No. 3, his partner, Corey Conners, hooked the International Team's second shot from 211 yards in the alternate-shot format and it bounced over the three-foot wooden split-rail fence that runs down the left side of the opening three holes.
It was clearly OB, but when the ball bounced, a fan kicked it while it was still in the air back into play and on to the green. Chicago fans love to get into the action and have experience helping the visiting team – we’re looking at you, Steve Bartman – but that’s a no-no in golf
and the shot was ruled out of bounds under Rule 11.2. This Rule applies "only when it is known or virtually certain that a player’s ball in motion was deliberately deflected or stopped by a person," which includes when a person deliberately touches the ball in motion. When a ball would have come to rest out of bounds, the player must take stroke-and-distance relief under Rule 18.2.
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The International Team would make double bogey and the U.S. team of Russell Henley and Jacob Bridgeman won the hole with bogey to go 2 up after two holes in the foursomes match.
Adam Schupak is a Golfweek senior writer covering the PGA Tour and the Presidents Cup.
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