"A unanimous decision."
/Steve Elling reports that there was a problem getting ahold of Rory McIlroy yesterday and that authorities wanted his side of the story, which sounds good.
An Augusta National club official said Saturday morning that several rules officials from various worldwide tours and organizations, including the PGA Tour, were involved in the deliberations and that it was "a unanimous decision." McIlroy told the committee officials that he habitually rakes over his bunker footprints before exiting a trap and that while he wasn't happy, he was merely smoothing out the sand.
The BBC interviewed McIlroy and features this photo of the incident.
John Vander Borght looks at Rule 6-6 (“If he returns a score for any hole lower than actually taken, he is disqualified") and asks if it needs to be changed.