Bernhard Langer was not penalized. An update from the rules of golf closed him there.  

But he could not only duck awkwardness.

“Well, the dreaded two-chip, ” analyst Gary Koch said of Langer’s dreaded two-chip, caught on your Golf Channel’s broadcast of most Friday’s Senior Open following that round.  

Of course , a person supposed to one-chip, and that was the two-time Masters champ’s thought after hitting your third shot on Gleneagles’ par-4 9th from exclusively off the back of the green. He then hit the ball thanks, the second time as it was start to move forward and he was launching his follow-through. From in 60 feet from the flag, the ball kicked to be able to Langer’s left, and he appeared to be to left with about a 40-footer for par.  

So … what happened?

“He’s trying to lob the ball over where it little ridge in front while gets a little flip of a hands and the clubhead takes out there and catches our own ball for a double whacked, ” Koch said on a broadcast.  

But , as noted ahead of, Langer was not hit by a penalty, thanks to a trumps change in 2019. Rule 10. 1a now states : “If the player’s club by mistake hits the ball over and over again, there has been only one stroke and no penalty; ” earlier in this article Langer would have been penalized a stroke.  

And why was the change made? On their website, the USGA wrote : “Where a fabulous double hit occurs with regard to a single stroke and wasn’t the intention of the audio device, it was felt unfair and preventable for the player to be reprimanded. Just as there is no penalty if your player’s ball accidentally deflects off his or her body, items or caddie, there is no need for a penalty when a player unexpectedly strikes his or her own glass ball in making a stroke. ”

On the broadcast, Koch attained another thought.  

“The good news is definitely, under the rules change reverse a couple of years ago, no longer a problem, ” he said. “And I could see why because I have never seen a seeing that hit that ended up international locations better position, that’s obviously. ”

From that country, Langer bogeyed, but strategy for three-under over his terminal nine holes for a two-under 68 overall, and he is three shots back of alpha dog Darren Clarke .  

He had recovered great, though these things can scar tissue.  

“What that does — we are all golfers here and after that professional — it undoubtedly knocks the stuffing not in you emotionally when you do like that, ” said Paul McGinley , who joined this particular broadcast after his secondly round.    

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