UDMDO: Every's Caddie Was Using A Compass
/I've talked to NORAD and consulted the place to go these days for rules clarifications and it seems the Unidentified Distance Measuring Device Object many saw in the hands of Matt Every's caddie Derek Mason (thanks reader Brian) was in fact, a compass. Zzzzzzz.
Missy Jones confirmed this with Every and explains why a compass is legal under the Rules of Golf. More intriguing is Matt Every's apparent issue with the concept of laying up, which should prove fun if he makes it on the leaderboard at the Masters with its do-or-die par-5s.
The caddy, who will go by that until I found our the lad's name, was caught dropping some salty language by NBC's crack sound team, but alas, the PGA Tour scrubberers will make sure to deprive of us of the moments when he was urging his man to lay-up, reports Emily Kay.
Here is a clip, so get on it scrubberers!
Stephanie Wei explains that there is a reason for the tension (not sure about the compass).
Every's propensity to not lay up, ever, was called out by Stat man Mark Horton prior to this week:
“He goes, let me tell you something, ‘If I was a betting man, every time you get in contention I would bet against you,’” recalled Every. ”And I was like, what? It kind of took me by surprise a little bit.
“Then he gave me a couple of tips and it was kind of nice to hear something like that, because a lot of people out here just pump your tires. And depending on who it’s coming from, it doesn’t even mean anything.
“But when he said that it kind of it hit me pretty good. And I was like, part of me was, like, screw him, I’ll show him. And part of me was like, he’s right, you know? One of the reasons he said was I am way too aggressive on Sundays. That was the main thing."
