I'm a big opponent of penalizing violations that are technically against the rules but aren't really in the spirit of the actual rule. Like when a play is called offside because a forward had their skate 3 inches off the ice over the blue line. Clearly that's not what the rule is meant to enforce. I remember Daniel Briere scoring against Pittsburgh in the 2012 ECQF where he was a mile offside, and he might not have gotten to the puck had he been onside... that's the type of play that the offside rule is supposed to prevent.
Same for this. I get the purpose of the rule and what it's supposed to prevent, but that Li penalty is just a technicality. Strictly interpreting the rule, it's illegal, but... it's not really illegal. The golfing equivalent of having your skate 3 inches off the ice over the blueline. I guess, then, that getting a two stroke penalty for having your ball roll a dimple due to high winds would be the equivalent of having your skate 2 inches off the ice. So many terrible rules in golf.
'Zinger takes over for Sunday's final round at the Waste Management Classic:
