KAPALUA, Hawaii Thomas Pagel is not the nervous type, but on a warm and clear tropical morning, he was anxiously watchinghis phone and regularly checkingin on his walkie-talkie.Although the U.S. Open is normally when youd see the USGAs senior managing director of governance on his toes, the introduction of a sweeping set of new rules this year at the Sentry Tournament of Champions was every bit the rules gurus Super Bowl.You can imagine theres nerves and excitement. Were seven years deep into a project, and this is the first tournament played on the PGA Tour under the new rules, said Pagel, who met with players last week in Maui.There were nerves on Thursday but it all went like we thought it would. You saw Bryson [DeChambeau] with the flagstick.You saw a couple players drop from knee-height, which we knew it was going to take people some time to get used to. Its still golf.It was still golf, complete with a dramatic come-from-behind victory for Xander Schauffele;but if social media is any indication, the new rules will take some time for fans digest.From DeChambeaus decision to putt with the flagstick in the hole to snapshots of players taking what could only be described as dainty drops from knee-height, the new rules didnt go unnoticed.
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Opinions have differed over whether or not to putt with the flagstick in. But Bryson DeChambeau is getting the last laugh ... at least through 18 holes of the experiment. Of particular interest to Pagel was DeChambeaus choice to putt with the flagstick in the vast majority of time.I'm using it to my advantage, DeChambeau said following his second-round 68 in Maui.Pagel explained that the intent of the flag rule was to speed up play, not to give players a competitive advantage.We said, 'If you make a long putt and you happen to hit the flagstick, is there really a need for a penalty?' The ball might go in. It might not, Pagel said. We didnt look at the data. It was not a data-driven decision. At the end of the day, we thought it might help players, but it also might hurt players.DeChambeau was critical of the new rule regarding drops, which now must come from knee-height, telling GolfChannel.com, That you have to drop it from knee-height is a bit absurd. I think that you should be able to go from knee-height to shoulder-height.
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"I think that you should be able to go from knee height to shoulder height. There should be no issue with that, whatever you want to do, honestly," he said. Pagelexplained the decision to change the drop rule was a package deal.Its not just a drop from knee-height, but now its a focus on the relief area. People say that dropping from shoulder-height is simple, and it is, but under the old rules, there were nine different times you had to re-drop. We wanted to eliminate all those complications, Pagel said.In order to focus on that new relief area, we said,'Lets get the player closer to the ground, and if you drop it from knee-height, that ball is going to bounce a little less.'
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