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I don’t much care for Phil Michelson. I never have. However, I don’t think he is a cheater like some have said.

Golf is a sport with tons of rules. Some of them can benefit you and some of them can hurt you.

For example, if you play a non-comforming ball in a tournament you can be disqualified. You can be assessed a penalty for grounding your club in a hazard.

At the same time you can also seek relief from certain situations if you know the rules well. For example, when I was helping with the golf team while I was student teaching one of our golfers got in a dispute with a golfer from another school. Our golfer argued that because an area was “staked” (marked) a certain way he was legally allowed relief without penalty. He was right. He knew the rules well and it benefited him that day.

Phil Michelson knows the rules of golf and knows them well. The other golfers can argue all they want about the “spirit of the rule” and whatever that means. What I do know is that Phil knows the rules and if they benefit him in this particular situation, fine by me.

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