DisQualification

Ringoblack

Just curious. Under the Rules of Golf is there any difference in a player DQing himself or being DQed by the local Rules Committee? I ask this in light of the recent DQ in the US Amateur due to use of a slope rangefinder.

Rickochet

I would think a DQ is a DQ regardless of how it is claimed.

fnufan

A player who believes he has committed a DQable offence may withdraw and simply not complete the round but a committee is the body that imposes the DQ penalty.

darpar

Also I think if a player DQ's himself,he has a little more credibility than if a committee does the dirty work.

PA-PLAYA

My understanding of the particular situation in question was that the player wasn't aware that his caddie that round had used the slope feature on his LRF until the caddie said something about an actual yardage versus playing yardage. At that point the player realized his caddie had been using the slope function on the range finder and reported it to a rules official, essentially DQ'ing himself from the tournament.

And although I'm not 100% certain, I think (?) the player was using a caddie that he wasn't overly familiar with, as in it wasn't his regular caddie.

But I could be mistaken.

sdandrea1

I thought this was a thread about Dairy Queen..............................😕

fnufan

The player reported the breach. The referee, acting with the authority of the committee, awarded the DQ