Tour pro blows rules whistle on himself. Then ‘a bit of good karma' came
Tour pro Matt Wallace blew the rules whistle on himself during the Valspar Championship's second round.
Matt Wallace on Friday on the 11th hole on the Copperhead Course. Golf Channel Only one person, Matt Wallace says, saw him accidentally move his golf ball. Or so he thought.
The golf gods, remember, see all. The divine sequence played out Friday during the Valspar Championship’s second round, where Wallace shoved his tee ball right and into the pine straw on the Copperhead Course’s par-5 11th hole. Delicacy was needed.
Wallace said his caddie, Jamie Lane, warned him, too. But a wayward twig forced Wallace to hover his club at address, he said, and as he waggled it, his ball relocated. Uh-oh.
Wallace called for an official. He also said he’d never made his ball before in such a way. “Didn’t know whether it was in the action of my swing or anything,” he said afterward, “but I definitely touched it, and then the ball moved from that.