{"id":46710,"date":"2026-05-04T00:53:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/wild-retroactive-rule-penalties-are-invoked-and-the-pros-are-denied-the-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:53:52","slug":"wild-retroactive-rule-penalties-are-invoked-and-the-pros-are-denied-the-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/wild-retroactive-rule-penalties-are-invoked-and-the-pros-are-denied-the-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild retroactive rule penalties are invoked. And the pros are denied the playoffs."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Haru Ihoi came off the 18th hole at Nam Seoul Country Club thinking he was in a playoff.<\/p>\n

A few minutes later, he walked away with a two-shot lead.<\/p>\n

What happened may be one of the more promiscuous rules penalty sequences you’ll hear about. At South Korea’s GS Caltex Maegyong Open Golf Championship, an event co-sponsored by the Asian Tour and the Korean Tour, Huo received a two-stroke penalty after Sunday’s final round for his spur-of-the-moment actions that occurred the day before, and the violation dropped him from tied for first to tied for third, according to the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n

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This incident is further reported by Tom Hobbs. flushing it<\/em> X account (story here), Ryan French Monday Q information<\/em> Website (article here) and Josh Ball of the South China Morning Post (article here), and here’s where you should read those articles. Below is some of what they reported.<\/p>\n

\u2013 That moment came during Saturday\u2019s third round on the par-4 seventh hole in South Seoul. So Huh hit his tee shot to the right, potentially going out. He then took a tentative shot, but Hobbs reported that it stopped in the fairway.<\/p>\n

\u2013 A spotter spots the first ball and picks it up, believing it to be out of bounds.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Mr Hobbs and Mr French said members of Mr Herr\u2019s gallery believed the ball was in play. Things got heated. According to French’s article, Xu’s gallery believed his playing partner’s caddy had picked up the ball. An official was called.<\/p>\n

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\u2013 After lengthy discussions, officials decided that the ball hit by Huh as a provisional can be treated as if it were the original ball. Then his next shot will be his second. He finished the hole with a par.<\/p>\n

\u2013 In Hobbs\u2019 account, one player says this about what happened: \u201cFuck you. He basically took a mulligan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Then Sunday’s final round began, with Hsu starting in a tie for 11th place. He then shot a 64, the lowest round of the day, and Heo, Min-hyuk Sung, and Ming-gyu Cho all tied for first place.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Before the playoffs, officials decided to retroactively penalize Huh for two shots. From then on, Huh missed the playoffs and Son won.<\/p>\n

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Hobbs’ story included a statement from Ho’s wife and an email sent to players by the Asian Tour explaining what happened. They are below.<\/p>\n

Statement from Mr. Xu’s wife:<\/p>\n

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Email from Asian Tour:<\/p>\n

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Editor’s Note: Click here to read the full Asia Tour. <\/em>here<\/em>. Click to read Hobbes’ story <\/em>here<\/em>. Click to read the Frenchman’s story <\/em>here<\/em>. Click to read Ball’s story <\/em>here<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Haru Ihoi came off the 18th hole at Nam Seoul Country Club thinking he was in a playoff. A few minutes later, he walked away with a two-shot lead. What happened may be one of the more promiscuous rules penalty sequences you’ll hear about. At South Korea’s GS Caltex Maegyong Open Golf Championship, an event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-46710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}