{"id":34154,"date":"2022-06-02T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hideki-matsuyama-disqualified-from-memorial-first-dq-of-his-career\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T21:44:13","slug":"hideki-matsuyama-disqualified-from-memorial-first-dq-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/hideki-matsuyama-disqualified-from-memorial-first-dq-of-his-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideki Matsuyama disqualified from Memorial, first DQ of his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hideki Matsuyama turned professional in 2013, and until Thursday at the Memorial he had never been disqualified from a tournament on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Matsuyama was approached by tournament officials as he walked off the ninth green in the middle of his first round and was informed he was being disqualified because of an illegal marking on the face of his 3-wood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The club had white paint on the face near the impact area, bringing rule 4.a.3 in to play, which states:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>A player may use equipment to help his or her play during a round, except that a player must not create a potential advantage by:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Using equipment (other than a club or a ball) that artificially eliminates or reduces the need for a skill or judgment that is essential to the challenge of the game<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\">Full-field scores from the Memorial Tournament<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The paint on the face of Matsuyama&#8217;s club could impact contact with the ball, as well as helping with alignment, a PGA Tour rules official explained to Golf Channel.  Once the non-conforming club had been put in to play, Matsuyama was disqualified using rule 4-1 (a). <\/p>\n<p>Had the markings only been inside the grooves of the club, it would have been deemed conforming.  It was the paint on the actual face of the club, outside the grooves, that triggered the disqualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Matsuyama&#8217;s early exit left Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed to play the back nine Thursday &#8211; and Friday&#8217;s round &#8211; as a twosome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Matsuyama was 3 over through nine holes before the disqualification.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v4.0\" async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-4\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hideki Matsuyama turned professional in 2013, and until Thursday at the Memorial he had never been disqualified from a tournament on the PGA Tour. 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