SAN MARTIN, Calif. – In the final analysis, the USGA may have actually acted too quickly in applying the two-stroke penalty to Anna Nordqvist’s score in Sunday’s U.S. Women’s Open playoff.
Yes, the notion is totally at odds with the brunt of complaints about yet another rules controversy in a USGA event, but there were a lot of opinions rendered Sunday before the rules committee even had a chance to explain how the ruling unfolded.
After Sunday’s finish, USGA senior director of competitions John Bodenhamer patiently detailed in a news conference and in a separate media scrum how the penalty unfolded.