Thursday, July 24, 2008

While Something Needs To Be Done, It's Still Up To The Player

Hello. While Michelle Wie's star is not burning as brightly, she still brings a lot of media attention. It was again true last Saturday, for all the wrong reasons.
On Saturday Wie was told she was disqualified for not signing her scorecard Friday. At the time she was in 2nd place, one shot back.
Right now I'm going to say the responsibility is on the player to sign their card. If I'm Michelle Wie, or any other player, and my livelihood is dependent on having a correct scorecard, I'm triple checking every number and looking for both signatures (mine and the scorer's). These players have signed cards in every tournament they've ever played. It should be automatic.
What I will say as well, as someone who used to manage projects and people, is there need to be checks and balances to ensure the players do what they should've done. And I'm not saying this because it happened to Wie. Mark Roe is probably the most famous case of someone marking the scorecard incorrectly (he was DQ'd after being in contention on Saturday at the 2003 British Open, won by Ben Curtis).
Players don't intentionally make scorecards incorrect. Let's help them get correct cards.

Regards,
Steve

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