[Guest]

Casey, having had a brief but glorious career in baseball thought to give golf a try. After months of practice Casey finds himself in contention at The Masters tied with Tiger Woods. Its Sunday, the 18th hole. Casey hits his drive smack down the middle. His approach shot (2nd) lands five feet from the pin and rolls to within 2 feet of the cup. Casey is now lying two, a one putt birdie and he is the Masters champion. Casey putts only once but somehow makes a bogey and loses the tournament to Tiger. He incurs no penalties whatsoever. How could this happen?

[Guest]

It rolls within two feet, but keeps rolling down a slope, so he then has to hit two more times.

Edited April 11, 2008 by DemonWolf44

[itachi-san]

Casey, having had a brief but glorious career in baseball thought to give golf a try. After months of practice Casey finds himself in contention at The Masters tied with Tiger Woods. Its Sunday, the 18th hole. Casey hits his drive smack down the middle. His approach shot (2nd) lands five feet from the pin and rolls to within 2 feet of the cup. Casey is now lying two, a one putt birdie and he is the Masters champion. Casey putts only once but somehow makes a bogey and loses the tournament to Tiger. He incurs no penalties whatsoever. How could this happen?

Forgive my lack of golf terminology, but did he...

putt the ball so far off the green for his 3rd shot that he had to hit 2 regular shots from off the green for his 4th and 5th shots and a bogey. His 5th shot goes in.

[Guest]

which cup, tin , gold, china?

No 2 i'd say

[Guest]

He signed his scorecard with the wrong score, which would incur a 2-stroke addition to his score. Not sure if that's considered a penalty or not.

He could have also been really stupid, decided to "putt" the ball in with another club like a driver, missed once, missed twice, finally brought his putter out, and putted it in finally.

Heck, he could have completely missed his putt swing twice, which does count toward strokes, and finally hit the ball for a final putt. Of course, for statistical purposes, missing a putt counts as a putt, and realistically, never would happen.