{"id":162171,"date":"2021-11-19T03:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T04:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=162171"},"modified":"2021-11-19T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T07:56:53","slug":"bizarre-reason-behind-golfers-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=162171","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre reason behind golfer's disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former world No.8 Rory Sabbatini<\/a> has been disqualified from the PGA Tour<\/a> event in Georgia after accidentally failing to take reflective stickers off the face of his fairway wood.<\/p>\n

The bizarre disqualification came after the former US Masters<\/a> runner-up had shot an opening round of 4-under par 68 at The RSM Classic.<\/p>\n

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"There are stickers, reflective stickers. [They are] tiny," said John Munch from the PGA Tour. <\/p>\n

"The players use them to track club head speed when they practice and he just didn't take them off."<\/p>\n

Sabbatini reported the problem to rules officials after the round, who found he'd violated rule 4.1, which relates to having a "non-conforming external attachment" on the club.<\/p>\n

Sabbatini won the silver medal at this year's Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n

\"Rory<\/p>\n

Cameron Smith is the best placed Australia after a round of 66, leaving him in a tie for 21st at 6-under.<\/p>\n

Other Aussies in the field include Adam Scott (T83rd, 3-under), Matt Jones and Jason Day (both T106th, 2-under), Brett Drewitt (T136th, even) and Cam Davis (T142nd, 1-over).<\/p>\n

Colombia's Sebastian Munoz has a one-shot lead at 10-under.<\/p>\n

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Former world No.8 Rory Sabbatini has been disqualified from the PGA Tour event in Georgia after accidentally failing to take reflective stickers off the face […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162173,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162171\/revisions\/162173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}