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  1. SIAP.  Gavin Hall DQ'd from Korn Ferry Q-School on a rules violation.

    https://firepitcollective.com/the-worst-q-school-dq-you-have-ever-heard-so-far/

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    The Worst Q-School DQ You Have Ever Heard (So Far)

    Gavin Hall was undone by a little-known rule and the curious behavior of a caddie in his group

    By Ryan French

    October 18, 2022
     

    An hour after shooting 66 in the first round of Korn Ferry Tour Q school, Gavin Hall received a phone call that he had been DQ’d. A caddie in Hall’s  group had reached out to a rules official well after the round was over, sealing Hall’s fate. Players get DQ’d all the time, but something about this story stinks.

    Hall had a very good career at the University of Texas, including making multiple All-Big 12 teams. As a senior, he earned All-American honorable mention after finishing outside the top 22 just once. But after turning pro in 2017, Hall has battled injuries and the driver yips. He seemed to have turned a corner recently, with a stretch of good play that included finishing 17th on the Order of Merit on PGA Tour Canada, exempting him into second stage of Q-school.

    The 6th hole at the Plantation Preserve Golf Club in Plantation, Fla., is a 375-yard par-4, dogleg left, with water up the entire left side. According to Brett Graf, tournament director for the South Florida PGA, Hall hit a ball up the left that all three players in the group saw splash in the water. With nowhere down the fairway to drop, he then hit a second ball off the tee that landed in play. According to Rule 18.3(a), when the only two outcomes for a shot are that the ball is in the penalty area or in play, a provisional is not allowed. When Hall hit his second tee shot, he was effectively declaring that his first was in the penalty area; therefore, he had to play his second ball, even if the first one was found. But nobody knew that. Or so it seemed. (Update: A player and the caddie in question say that the player did in fact bring this up to Hall. While walking to the green, the player asked, “Are you sure you can play that?”

    As the group approached their tee shots, Hall’s caddie located his original ball on the bank of the penalty area. Hall hacked it out onto the fairway, essentially playing the wrong ball. He chipped onto the green and made the putt for what would have been a par.

    According to sources, on the next tee a caddie in the group muttered something about a possible rule’s infraction on the next hole. It was said so softly the source doesn’t think Hall heard it. If Hall had been made aware of the rules infraction before teeing off, he could have returned to the previous fairway, taken a penalty for playing the wrong (or second) ball and completed the hole, likely making a triple or quadruple bogey. Once he teed off on the 7th hole, Hall was destined for a DQ.

    (Update: According to a player in the group, Hall called for a rules official on the 7th green, when his ball was touching the hazard line. He didn’t call for a rules official on 6.)

    Hall birdied his last three holes and signed for what he thought was a 66. Nothing was said in scoring about the possible rules violation, to Hall or his caddie or any other player in the group. Only when the caddie in question called the rules official nearly an hour after the round did Hall learn his fate. (Update: The caddie in question said he did say something to a play in the group on 18, prior to going into scoring, but nothing was said in scoring. The player and caddie then went to practice for a few hours, went home to check the rules, and the caddie made the call to the rules official)

    That’s a tough pill to swallow.

     

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  2. As a (long ago) graduate of Brazoswood, I must ask, when did they become a power in water polo?  I did not even know there was a water polo team at the school until I randomly checked this thread out.  Congratulations to the teams.  Go Bucs!

  3. 6 hours ago, wood said:

    I wonder what the record is for the longest combined shutout.

    Quick search of baseball almanac shows 3 other 18 inning shutouts and nothing longer.

    July 16th, 1909, Washington Senators at Detroit Tigers play to a 0-0 tie in 18 innings. Ed Summers throws all 18 inning for Detroit.

    May 5th, 1918 - Chicago White Sox at Washington Senators:  Walter Johnson throws 18 inning of shutout baseball as the Senators beat the White Sox 1-0.  Lefty Williams throws 17.1 inning for the White Sox.

    July 2nd, 1933 - St. Louis Cardinals at New York Giants:  Carl Hubbell throws 18 inning of shoutout baseball as the Giants win 1-0 over the Cardinals.

    Baseball almanac also mentions a game in 1883 involving the Providence team that was an 18 inning shutout but has no box score for the game.

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  4. 24 minutes ago, satyanash said:

     

     

    How is Tennessee going to be 12-1 if they lose to Georgia and do not play in the SEC title game?  Are they like aggy and counting the spring game as a win?

  5. 1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Angela Landsbury was only 58 when she started Murder She Wrote?  WTF?  That's barely older than Elizabeth Hurley is right now.

    You know, a reboot of Murder She Wrote with Elizabeth Hurley would be something I might watch.  Especially if it was on Showtime or HBO Max and Elizabeth Hurley did a lot scenes with minimal or no wardrobe.

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  6. 14 hours ago, RexWilson said:

    I wish they did all classifications like 6A and wait until the playoff teams are set and then split. Splitting like they do now has caused some dumb districts.

    I wish they would stop with the d1 and d2 bullshit.  Just divide into 7 or 8 classifications.  Too many state titles being awarded with the current setup.  Or at least have the d1 and d2 champions play each other for the actual state title.

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  7. I do not really keep up with high school sports that much now (just casual glances at the regular season rankings and then cursory interest in the playoffs), so pardon me for what I have no doubt is a very stupid question:  why (or how) are the schools in the classifications below 6A divided into division 1 and division 2 in the rankings prior to the playoffs?  If I recall correctly when the UIL started that d1 and d2 bullshit, the regular season was completed, the schools qualifying for the playoffs from each district were determined, and then they were slotted d1 or d2 according to school size.  How is this done nowadays?  Again, apologies for the dumbass question.

  8. 2 hours ago, Baboontyme said:

    My kids have both told me separately that when they were younger they thought the world used to be black and white. Kind of mind blowing if you really think about it. 

    I distinctly remembering asking my dad when I was a child if he remembered the first day that was in color.

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  9. 58 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:

    The good old days were Saturday nights with Ron Franklin and Mike Patrick.

    Night games with Ron Franklin and Mike Gottfried, when the heat had finally broken and it was cool outside, from Austin or Baton Rouge or Auburn or some other SWC/Big XII/SEC location...I always thought that was just as much the sound of college football as hearing Keith Jackson's voice calling a game.

    Probably because he did so many Texas games in Omaha when the baseball team was making all of those runs in the CWS in the early 2000s, I associate Mike Patrick more with that than college football.  Still, I never had a problem with him on a football broadcast.

  10. Anyone know if Mr. Shank was in the greater Atlanta metro area this morning?

    https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/crash-spills-bud-light-i-75-cartersville/85-17ce938a-29f9-4c11-ab4f-9e10f8f65635

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    Crash spills cases of Bud Light onto I-75 in Cartersville

    The wreck happened early Monday morning.

    CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — An early-morning wreck Monday in Cartersville caused quite the spill.

    According to the Cartersville Police Department, it happened on I-75 South just past Exit 288 for Main Street. Multiple vehicles were involved, including an overturned tractor trailer.

    A photo posted by the police department showed what appears to be a pickup truck and the tractor trailer, along with several cases of Bud Light strewn about.

    Several details about the crash were not known, including whether there had been any serious injuries involved. It was not clear whether the cases of beer spilled out of the tractor trailer, were being carried by the pickup truck or perhaps were thrown out of a third vehicle.

    The wreck closed all lanes for a period of time before the roadway was reopened. 11Alive has reached out to the Cartersville Police Department for additional information about the crash.

     

  11. 24 minutes ago, WBT said:

    Yeah, the yell leaders embarrassing the school is just another tradition, whoop!  Wasn't there a big kerfuffle about a yell leader saying Joe Pa was so old he was going to keel over and die on the sideline or something?  This was years before the Sandusky stuff came out.

    I believe that was in San Antonio before aggy met pedo state in the Alamo Bowl.  A check of the intertubes says they have met in two Alamo Bowls, 1999 and 2007.  I think it might have been before the 1999 game when this happened.

  12. 8 minutes ago, BevoSwag said:

    Never forgive osborne for destroying the best conference in NCAA football at the time.  I think their fans are tolerable, even somewhat admirable, but their administration sucks and I hope they never win another game.  By chance if they do once make it to the B1G CG I hope they lose by 90 points.  Or last second TD.  

    That fat fucking retard Bret Bielema and the Wisconsin Badgers beat Nebraska 70-31 in the 2012 B1G title game.  So you almost got your wish 10 years ago.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Big_Ten_Football_Championship_Game

  13. 8 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

    They need to just ditch the playoffs. Have a season long points race and just pay out top 20 or 30 spots.

     

    Also, the majors are way too close together. They need to move the PGA back to August or later. I understand they don't wanna compete with football, but fuck football.

    If I recall, they moved the PGA so there would be 1 major a month on the calendar starting in April with the Masters.  Well, if you ask the PGA Tour, the majors start in March with the Players Championship, but I personally have never bought that line of bs.  The US Open has their thing with Father's Day so they unofficially have June locked up.  Leaving the British Open in July gives them the spotlight as the final golf major of the year.  Plus when the PGA was in August there were a lot of courses in the south that the PGA wanted to visit but were reluctant to because of the hot weather.  Then you have the Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, and FedEx stuff to consider, so playing the PGA any later in the year is not really feasible.

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