by The DP World Tour struck Sam Bairstow, the young English golfer very well rated, with a fine of £ 25,000 after a controversy of rules which caused indignation in the locker room.
The colleagues Pros and Caddies asked to know why Bairstow, the 27 -year -old who won more than 1 million pounds sterling in his first three years in the paid ranks, was not prohibited after his clear offense in the Nexo championship two weeks ago.
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Inevitably, questions are also asked about the transparency of the tour and its policy continues not to reveal the sanctions it exploits for transgressions.
“It has been stifled and many of us are unhappy,” said a tour professional Telegraph Sport. “This affects people’s lives and the tour must be more transparent and not be so paranoid about a wider negative reaction.”
The storm started during the new tournament organized on Trump’s international links in Aberdeenshire and was only highlighted because of a fan recording a video on his mobile phone during the first round. These images alerted the referees of the transgression of obvious rules and sparked a series of events that led to an expensive invoice for the 27 -year -old – and dissensions on the range.
The incident in question occurred on the 14th after Bairstow struck a capricious road and his ball finished on a bank. Telegraph Sport obtained a copy of the video, which shows the ball in suspension in Heavy Rough. While Bairstow addresses the ball, it clearly disappears more deeply in the hay. Bairstow is then seen to stop, withdraw and consult your shopping cart.
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However, instead of replacing the ball and accepting a penalty to a blow for moving the ball, he continued to hit him from his new rest position. Bairstow took three additional shots thereafter to finish the hole and put his scoring in five on his card.
However, without Baivestow’s knowledge, the sound with high eyes with the smartphone had already acted. After watching Bairstow, the former amateur of the world n ° 7 who notably qualified and played the four towers at the 150th Open St Andrews in 2022, falls clearly against the Book of Rules, the supporter sent the clip to the seat of the tour.
When Bairstow finished his tour, the officials asked by the officials of the 14 and he denied knowing how the rules. We then showed him the video and accepted that the five should be a seven, due to a two -step penalty – one for not having replaced the ball and another for having played it from the wrong place.
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Bairstow then disqualified the tournament and although it created confusion and the plot, the official explanation was that he had signed a five instead of a seven, had done the honorable thing and that the tournament was going on.
However, far from being the end of the case, copies of the video were transmitted around the Caddies and the pros and the disciplinary tours convened an audience. Bairstow was apparently categorical that he did not know that the ball had moved, despite the evidence of the clip. The hearing decided that the balloon movement towards another place had, like the rules, “had been discernible to the naked eye” and Bairstow received the maximum possible importance – included at £ 25,000.
In a declaration published at Telegraph Sport Friday, the visit detailed the event calendar. “The DP World Tour can confirm that on the 14th hole during the first round of the Nexo championship, there was an offense in the rules of Sam Bairstow which, at the time, led a two-step penalty,” he said.
“After examining the video sequences after the conclusion of the first round, it was judged that Bairstow’s actions had caused his trip before playing a stroke of the sand dunes on the 14th hole. Before the start of the second round, Bairstow considered that the right decision was to disqualify the tournament.
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“After a more in -depth investigation, Bairstow turned out to be in violation of the DP World Tour behavior code and sanctioned accordingly. The player has a revision period to call the sanction.”
It is not yet known if there will be a call. His management was approached to comment, but at the time of publication, Bairstow was in competition in the second round of the Betfred British Masters here at Belfry.
