By Chris Pummer
Staff Writer
Some have already suggested that LPGA officials should have let the fact that Michelle Wie forgot to sign her scorecard slide and not disqualified her. The justification being that there would be a huge amount of interest if Wie were in the field Sunday competing for her first LPGA Tour victory.
I say forget about that. The rules are the rules, and leaving your John Hancock on the scorecard at the end of a round is the most basic of requirements. Just like if I don't turn in my timecard, I don't get paid.
Could officials have let it slide? Sure, but only while compromising the integrity of the game and its rules.
Besides, Wie shouldn't want her first win stained by the notion that she got a free pass that another golfer wouldn't have gotten.
Big deal. Someone chased her down and she signed it--but she's disqualified because she had walked past a rope? Are you kidding me? What a stupid rule. A freebie wouldn't have tainted her win.
Not like that time Pierzynski ran for first after his strikeout pitch hit the ground. Now that's a tainted win--and a tainted World Series. Good thing the White Sox didn't have to sign anything!