ShackHouse 31: 2017 Masters Preview

The tradition unlike any other is here and Joe House and I talk all things Augusta National.

Among the topics covered: pushing back at Drive, Chip, and Putt Championship cynics, the new press center, the food, your Twitter questions and lots of make gambling picks and predictions.

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ShackHouse! Love the podcast. Just two questions that frame the argument for the other side of the Lexi ruling. 1. If you were playing someone for significant scratch, and they mark their ball like that on the 18th, would you not immediate demand that they re-mark their ball? If the answer is yes, then she clearly committed a penalty. How many strokes that penalty is determined to be is still on her which also leads to the next question. 2. Shouldn't the player want to know that he/she incurred a penalty in a tournament, and thereby differentiate golf from other sports where players push the rules and try to fool the referees to their advantage? If the answer is yes, then it doesn't matter who's catching/calling the penalty. Players have and will still win big tournaments while having every move they make on the course be televised to the whole world in HD and not incur a penalty. Part of playing golf at a high-level is avoiding even the possibility of a rules infraction. Putting in rules that increases the chances of a penalty not being called/caught just feels like a cheapening of the game and devolves it down to the other sports where fooling refs and skirting the rules are commonplace and celebrated by certain fans.