ATLANTA — They are some of the sweetest words to a golf purist — play the ball down — but on more occasions than one might like, PGA Tour players are offered the opportunity to lift, clean, and place.
Not Friday at East Lake Golf Club, though. Despite more than an inch of rain that fell overnight and a steady drizzle during the day, players in Round 2 of the Tour Championship were told to play it as it lies.
Proper golf, some would say, and while credit should be extended to the PGA Tour rules officials, one needs to also praise zoysia.