Shush !!

Who's kidding who ?  There is always talk that Alex Ferguson had the authorities in his pocket and has had many footballing decisions go his way through the force he commands in the Premier League.
Today we saw the power of that "other" Mr Woods, Tiger, holding the rule makers, in this case the rule breakers, to evade the rule which states that your drop, after an unplayable shot, has to land within a reasonable distance of where the shot that went wrong was played.   He knows the rules.   His comment earlier, that the young 14 year old Chinese must "know the rules" when he was asked what he felt about the penalty handed to the young Chinese of one point, for being too slow in his play. The fact that the speed of play is largely determined by the speed of those playing in front and therefore perhaps, the whole field should have been penalised ?
Be that as it may, the Tiger certainly knows the rules and when he admitted that he had gone back on the position of where the drop should have been taken by a couple of yds !!
As they say a yard is as good as a mile especially if you are Tiger Woods and the organisers, knowing that the crowds would be down if he was relegated, decided that the turnstiles were more important than the rules.
He got a two stroke penalty for breaking the rule, acknowledging he broke the rule and then signing his card with an incorrect score which is another misdemeanor. The youngster had one stroke taken away for slow play which I question because he had no way of controlling.
 
Perhaps it was the only way the Americans could get one back on the Chinese ?