Oscillategate 2: Three TV Trucks Later, Rose Penalized

Brian Wacker with quite possibly the strangest HD ruling yet, which started with Justin Rose and playing partner Sergio Garcia reviewing a replay on the videoboard, determining there was no violation, only to have a European Tour official phone in based on his Sky broadcast observation. And that was just the beginning of the fun that led to a penalty shot for a moving ball, and another for not replacing it under Rule 18.2.b.

Oh, and Rose not thinking his ball moved.

From Wacker's report:

But after more than 30 minutes of looking at it from multiple broadcast feeds in three different trucks -- including one from Sky Sports after European Tour rules official David Probyn phoned in while watching on Sky Sports in Europe -- officials determined that the ball did move.

"They had a different angle on the other feed; they had a much closer one," said PGA TOUR Vice President of Rules Mark Russell. "It was my view his ball did move."

Afterward, Rose agreed but still didn't sound totally convinced.

"It literally took zoom in, the whole screen got fragmented, the golf ball was more like a hexagon at this point," he said, holding a blade of grass in his hand. "If it moved (the width of the blade of grass) that's all it moved, but there was a wobble on the screen. Under 50 times magnification in the truck maybe the ball moved a quarter of a dimple toward the toe of the club, which, obviously, if the ball moved, it moved and I get assessed an extra stroke penalty.

GolfCentralDoc posted a clip on YouTube: