"I don't know why Christina Kim's word was taken more than mine.''

Martin Blake on Karie Webb's spat with officials Down Under over marking behind her ball with a tee, something common on the LPGA Tour (apparently) to help line up putts from behind the hole, but unbeknownst to Golf Australia's officials who bickered with Webb.

''I think it was really badly handled, actually,'' Webb said. ''They didn't check at first. They told me I'd breached a rule but they couldn't tell me which rule I'd breached. Then, after I came in and finished my playing partner's scorecard, they asked me why I do it. That's why it was handled poorly. I was trying to get what ruling I could have breached. They couldn't tell me what ruling because it wasn't in the decisions book and it wasn't in the Rules of Golf.

''They said they called the R&A [The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews], and then I asked [playing partner] Christina Kim how many people on the LPGA put a tee behind the ball, and she said: 'About 70 per cent.' That was the end the issue. I don't know why Christina Kim's word was taken more than mine.''