Lee Trevino calls the most recent dispute over golf regulations “crazy.”
Lee Trevino is one of those rare golf legends who needs no introduction, but it’s still fun to list the highlights of his resume. With 92 professional wins, 6 major championships, he is undoubtedly the most exciting man in the professional game.
Trevino celebrated his 84th birthday and continues to delight audiences with important stories from his impressive and seemingly endless life experiences. On this week’s episode of Subpar, Trevino gave hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz plenty of anecdotes and got into the match. He was especially animated when discussing the latest golf topics, including the rare penalty handed out to Collin Morikawa at the Hero World Challenge earlier this month. .
Let me remind you again. Morikawa received a two-stroke penalty for violating local G-11 regulations restricting the use of environmentally friendly training materials before completing the final round at Hero on Sunday. Morikawa’s playing partner was Matthew Fitzpatrick, who first reported the violation when Fitzpatrick tried to explain what was allowed.
The point of the matter is that Morikawa and his gourds had previously used a device during eco training to handwrite information about eco training. The devices are legal and it is legal to keep information in your head, but it is not legal to write it down for future reference. So the rule was broken when Morikawa’s handwriting provided information on the fourth green of the third round.
As you can imagine, Trevino doesn’t like how things are going. “Colin took a penalty kick.” He started it. “See now how crazy that is?” See, these kids make up rules and things in this room. This is madness! This is madness!
“Now, Collin is playing. His frame is a man with a map showing where the insects are on the green. What matters?’ Trevino continued, “The fairways are on sprinklers, so you can use rangefinder, you can use cards on the fairways, and you can’t use cards on the green? It doesn’t make sense to me. nothing!”
Trevino disagrees that it’s okay to get information, but not okay to write it. “You can memorize it, but you can’t write it down?” he said “You must be a genius to come up with that.”
