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Andy Nesbitt

Cam Smith was issued a 2-stroke penalty before his final round and golf fans went nuts

Cam Smith Cameron Smith Golf PGA Tour

Cameron Smith is competing in the PGA Tour playoffs before likely leaving for LIV Golf, where he will reportedly be paid $100 million to play in the Saudi-funded exhibition league.

To say things have been a bit awkward at this week’s first round of the PGA Tour playoffs would be an understatement. First, Smith refused to talk about LIV before play began.

Then golf fans went nuts when Smith didn’t seem happy about Scottie Scheffler walking through his putting line during the first round.

Things then took a wild turn on Sunday when it was announced that Smith had been issued a two-stroke penalty for something he did in Saturday’s third round, which dropped him from two back of the lead to four strokes back.

Here’s the ruling:

Here’s the PGA Tour’s statement:

“Prior to the start of the final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship, Cameron Smith was assessed a two-stroke penalty for a breach of Rule 14.7 (playing the ball from the wrong place) on Hole No. 4 during the third round where he was operating under Rule 17.1 (when ball was in penalty area). Smith’s score has been adjusted and he will begin the final round at 201 (-9).”

Here’s the mistake that he made:

The ball is clearly on the red line so there you have it.

Twitter had reactions.

https://twitter.com/RobertLusetich/status/1558870674357096448

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