Of course, professional golfers are subjected to the vagaries of the weather every time they set foot on the competitive stage. An early tee-time might offer benign conditions conducive to low scoring, a later start may see the wind get up, over two opening rounds when tee-times are reversed, things even themselves out but, even if they don’t, it’s the rub of the green, like a bad bounce.
“It’s a very bad call - you don’t take golf off the board that’s already been played in a ‘Major,” Charlie Rymer, the former PGA Tour pro, said on the Golf Channel, “Majors are played over 72 holes and this indicates that this event is not being treated with the gravity it deserves.
“It's not good for the women's game,” he rightly concluded, insisting, “You play 72 holes; you play as long as it takes… I just disagree wholeheartedly with this. It diminishes the event… It’s just not right. Doesn’t feel right, doesn’t look right; it’s not good for the ladies’ game.”
Even some of the players expressed their dismay. Angela Stanford, a veteran of 71 LPGA ‘Majors,’ who finished 18th in the discredited Evian Championship, asking on Twitter, “I'm just wondering who has the final say,” adding, “Those ladies at -2 deserve to keep their score.”
What the official records do not – and will not – show is where the eventual winner Anna Nordqvist was, either on the golf course or the scoreboard, when the klaxon went on Thursday lunchtime, nor Brittany Altomare, the American she eventually defeated in the play-off on Sunday at the end.
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