Golf’s 5 Biggest Rules Controversies Of 2019

By DYLAN DETHIER, Golf.com

Before we get to the main event, let’s run through the Honorable Mentions, in some vaguely alphabetical order, to remind us just how much intrigue the Rules of Golf provided in 2019:

Adam Schenk’s caddie line-up incident. Alex Cejka’s greens-reading incident. Ariya Jutanugarn and Amy Olson’s backstopping incident. Brendan Steele’s alignment stick incident. David Lipsky’s late to the tee incident. Haotong Li’s caddie line-up incident. Harold Varner III’s assembling-a-driver-on-the-course incident. Jesper Parnevik’s what’s-a-mulligan-anyway incident. Kendall Dye’s what-club-you-hittin’ incident. Lee Ann Walker’s 58 penalty strokes incident. Marciel Siem’s preferred-lies-everywhere incident. Matt Kuchar’s mystery pitch mark incident. Rory McIlroy’s what’s-a-rock-anyways incident. Russell Henley’s wrong-Pro-V1 incident. Team USA’s score-in-the-wrong-spot incident.

Woof! And yeah, those are just the also-rans. When it came to rules controversies, the cup runneth over. Here were the five biggest lightning-rod moments from 2019.

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