Davis: 'God-forsaken' DJ rule will be getting attention

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. – Last week at the PGA of America’s annual meeting, USGA executive director Mike Davis said that his association was planning to release a simplified draft of the Rules of Golf next year.

Among the items Davis said would be addressed was Rule 18-2 (ball at rest moved), the directive that cost Dustin Johnson a stroke, but not the title, at this year’s U.S. Open.

“As for the Dustin Johnson ruling, Rule 18-2, that God-forsaken rule, that is going to be getting attention in the near future. We listen and we learn,” Davis said.

In April at the Masters, Horschel endured a similar fate. His ball was blown into a water hazard on the 13th hole during Round 3 after he’d marked it…