{"id":293,"date":"2009-05-11T21:56:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T02:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/?p=293"},"modified":"2021-06-14T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T04:04:41","slug":"fowl-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/2009\/05\/11\/fowl-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Did a Professional Golfer Protest a Missed Putt Due to Duck Dung Being on the Green?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SPORTS LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: A professional golfer protested a missed putt during a playoff match due to duck dung being on the green.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 2003, professional golfer David Hartshorne (shown below from his victory at the SRIXON Club Pro Championship in 2004) found himself in a bit of a predicament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/04_club_pro_winner.jpg\" alt=\"04_club_pro_winner\" title=\"04_club_pro_winner\" width=\"349\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/04_club_pro_winner.jpg 349w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/04_club_pro_winner-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/04_club_pro_winner-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hartshorne was in a three-way playoff match in a qualifying match where the winner would qualify to compete in the New Zealand PGA Open, where the winner could win $750,000. So a lot was at stake.<\/p>\n<p>It got to the point where Hartshorne needed to drill a 35-yard putt to stay in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was that there were duck droppings on the green between his ball and the cup.<\/p>\n<p>Hartshorne requested that the duck dung be removed from the green. <\/p>\n<p>The judge denied his request, arguing that &#8220;because the droppings had adhered to the green, they were not loose impediments. Furthermore, the droppings had been flattened and would not affect the outcome of the putt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After missing, Hartshorne appealed to the PGA for admittance to the Open anyways, but he was denied.<\/p>\n<p>Done in by dung &#8211; so sad!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Golf Digest for the quote from the New Zealand official!<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">STATUS<\/span><\/u>: True.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is bcronin&#64;&#108;&#101;&#103;&#x65;&#x6e;&#x64;&#x73;&#x72;&#x65;&#x76;&#x65;&#x61;led.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPORTS LEGEND: A professional golfer protested a missed putt during a playoff match due to duck dung being on the green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MjWh-4J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}