Usually I like golf, but this really is rather absurd. She didn't get penalized for not signing her scorecard, for walking away and forgetting about it, but rather for walking too far before she realized it and returned. I personally think this is a ridiculous rule. I mean, if she just takes off, sure, but she found out she had made a mistake, came back to fix it, and did so before she played any more golf - heck, before she even left the general vicinity of the scorer's tent. I see no reason why that shouldn't be a forgivable error.

Then, to add insult to injury, they let her spend a whole day out on the course thinking that nothing is wrong, let her play her third consecutive great round and get into serious contention, and then tell her, "Oh, by the way, your score today doesn't count. Or the one from yesterday. Yeah." If that were me, I think I would definitely be tossing some f-bombs and "Why'd you wait to tell me"s.

This seems like one of those letter-vs-intent of the law situations. Sure, the rule is the rule, but if the infraction was so specific that it took you until the following afternoon to catch it, was it absolutely necessary to enforce it? Then you add insult to injury by waiting until the player posts another good score and gets into the final pairing to break the bad news? The only word I can think to describe it is 'unnecessary.'

So instead of spending her Sunday afternoon competing side-by-side against Yani Tseng for what might be her first ever LPGA title, she's forced to sit at home and watch the final round, all because of another one of golf's goofy rules.