"This intent thing is a funny one though, and hardly an exact science."

Thanks for all of the great comments on the "intent" issue. John Huggan wrote about it today for GolfDigest.com and reminds us that intent was part of the Rory McIlroy discussion that took longer than Reds to resolve.

This intent thing is a funny one though, and hardly an exact science. Gray areas abound. I mean, how far can using "intent" as an excuse take a player? Yet again, even in a game that sells itself to sponsors largely on the basis of its supposed honesty, integrity and lack of cheating, it depends. But what is certainly true is that golf, it seems to me, wants it all ways.