{"id":138276,"date":"2025-09-12T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138276\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:37:07","slug":"bmw-pga-championship-marcel-siem-explains-wentworth-disqualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/138276\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW PGA Championship: Marcel Siem Explains Wentworth Disqualification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marcel Siem<\/a> has had a tough couple of weeks, culminating in being disqualified from the BMW PGA Championship<\/a> at Wentworth.<\/p>\n

Siem had to withdraw from the Irish Open last week in the opening round due to a bad back, and things got worse for him at the DP World Tour’s flagship event<\/a> after a huge error on the 18th.<\/p>\n

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The 39-year-old German ended up wrongly completing the 18th with his provisional ball following an errant tee shot, after some confusion between his original being out of bounds or in a water hazard.<\/p>\n

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So instead of signing for a 78, Siem was disqualified after he himself only realized the error when he was about to sign his scorecard – and insisted it was just a mistake.<\/p>\n

“I just wanted to let you know I didn’t cheat,” Siem explained on Instagram.<\/a> “I would never do that, so I got disqualified, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

“On 18, I pushed my driver to the right, hit a provisional thinking it’s out of bounds on the right. Never knew it’s a water hazard on the right.<\/p>\n

“Anyways, found my provisional. I was just about to hit my provisional, so my fourth shot, so to say, and one of the spectators found my ball, my first one.<\/p>\n

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“I walked in there, tired of the whole day already, and the ball was underneath the branch, couldn’t chip it out. I said, okay, this is unplayable. Picked the ball up, and then just stupidly hit my fourth shot.<\/p>\n

“Just kept going, made birdie with my second ball, so to say, and made a bogey.”<\/p>\n

Siem added that he felt he’d made a mistake only when he sat down to sign his card and so called in a referee to explain – who then informed him he was disqualified.<\/p>\n

“I was just about to sign my card, and I just realised something is off here,” Siem continued.<\/p>\n

“I said ‘guys I dont think I made a six let’s call a referee’. I said, ‘dude, I think I made a mistake here, right? I’m supposed to go back to the 18th tee box and play my third shot, right?’ Because it’s water hazard, and if I declared as unplayable, I have to go back, and I cannot hit my provisional ball.<\/p>\n

“So that was the case and I’m disqualified because of that.”<\/p>\n

Siem is trying to stay positive after his rough stretch, but hopes to put things right with a good performance at the upcoming French Open.<\/p>\n