When the ball position was inspected, it was found plugged in the grass underneath the bush, prompting a conversation with the rules official. “I just accepted the penalty and took it back and dropped it. If it hadn’t been plugged and been in the same place I couldn’t have, in my own conscience, played a shot. “I actually said to the rules official, ‘There’s no relief for embedded balls in The Open, is there?’ She said, ‘Actually we’ve changed the rules’. But no lead is big enough when the weather gets bad on a links course,” said Westwood.

Source: National Post July 20, 2019 22:30 UTC