HONGKONG, China \u2014\u00a0The Asian Tour said Monday it would tighten its rules review process after a decision at the weekend saw South Korea’s Hur In-hoi at the centre of a major row.<\/p>\n
Song Min-hyuk beat Cho Min-gyu on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff Sunday to win the Maekyung Open in their native South Korea, but it was the drama behind the scenes that took the spotlight.<\/p>\n
Hur was poised to join the playoff, but after signing his scorecard he was penalised two shots for an incident on Saturday.<\/p>\n
That day, Hur had been allowed to play a provisional ball without penalty on the seventh hole following a dispute over whether his original ball had gone out of bounds. He signed for a 69.<\/p>\n
But on Sunday officials determined that his original tee shot on Saturday had been out of bounds, so his score was adjusted to 71 — more than 24 hours later.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The decision to correct the initial ruling and apply a stroke and distance penalty, a day after the incident in question, has understandably drawn scrutiny from players, media and fans,” the Asian Tour said in a statement.<\/p>\n “The delay in delivering the ruling has highlighted the need for greater communication between sanctioning bodies and efficiency in the decision-making process.”<\/p>\n The Asian Tour acknowledged the ruling had put Hur — who was seen angrily remonstrating with officials — in “a difficult situation”, along with his fellow competitors.<\/p>\n “We are confident the action taken was the right decision in accordance with the Rules of Golf,” the tour said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONGKONG, China \u2014\u00a0The Asian Tour said Monday it would tighten its rules review process after a decision at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[9490,49942,64,63,755,23184,228,57259,43495,85,130866,319,245],"class_list":["post-648717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-after","tag-asian","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-process","tag-review","tag-row","tag-rules","tag-sports","tag-tighten","tag-to","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}