Michael Brennan was disqualified from the Farmers Insurance Open on Thursday following his first round for using non-permitted green-reading materials.<\/p>\n
The PGA Tour announced the DQ on Thursday evening after Brennan had opened with a 2-under 70 on the North Course and sat T-55 on the leaderboard.<\/p>\n
The specific violation is of Model Local Rule G-11, which, according to the PGA Tour hard card for 2026, restricts the use of green-reading materials to only committee approved yardage books and hole location sheets, and a map of the entire course no larger than letter or A4 sized paper.<\/p>\n
The USGA provides further explanation on the MLR:<\/p>\n
Handwritten notes may be added to an approved yardage book or approved hole-location sheet before or during the round by the player or the player\u2019s caddie only and are limited to information gathered by the player or caddie only.<\/p>\n
Handwritten notes may contain information gained only through personal experiences of the player or the player\u2019s caddie from the course or by watching a televised broadcast, but are limited to information gained: While observing a ball that was rolled or played (whether by the player, caddie or someone else), or through the player\u2019s or caddie\u2019s feel or general observations of the putting green.<\/p>\n
Also, per the USGA, the first breach of MLR G-11 is a two-shot penalty. The second breach results in disqualification.<\/p>\n
Brennan, 23, picked up his first PGA Tour victory at last fall\u2019s Bank of Utah Championship, where he was competing on a sponsor exemption having already won the PGA Tour Americas points list last season.<\/p>\n
The Farmers was his third start of this season after he missed the Sony Open cut and then tied for 56th at The American Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Brennan was disqualified from the Farmers Insurance Open on Thursday following his first round for using non-permitted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-438229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}