Harrington

[Kiwi]

He broke a rule, didn't take the correct penalty, signed the wrong scorecard and was dq'ed.

Harrington should have known better. His comments make it sound like he knew that he did something wrong at the time, but hoped it wouldn't be noticed. Players know that their every move is being scrutinized in HD. They should act accordingly.

I don't think that this is any different from the NHL going to Toronto to "the war room" for video replays.

Oh, I think there is a big difference. For the NHL it is the persons within the game responsible for making the call vs. joe-nobody calling in. Would you want some guy in the nose bleed section to twitter the NHL War Room requesting a check of the call on a goal or off side? Not me. If there are issues the PGA cannot resolve regarding adherence to the rules, that viewers are picking up on their 60" LED TVs sitting in their man caves, pop in hand, then they need to get more refs on the course to "protect" the game. If this proves anything, the players cannot police themselves. No one is cheating, but perhaps the rules are so complex as Nicklaus reportedly said that the players should not be expected to enforce them themselves.