{"id":20986,"date":"2015-07-14T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/spy-caddy-says-he-did-not-want-to-gain-competitive-advantage\/"},"modified":"2015-07-14T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T15:22:53","slug":"spy-caddy-says-he-did-not-want-to-gain-competitive-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/spy-caddy-says-he-did-not-want-to-gain-competitive-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy caddy says he did not want to gain competitive advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Fusco will carry Sei Young Kim\u2019s bag again as a caddy this week at the Marathon Classic, a week after being booted out of the US Women\u2019s Open.<\/p>\n

The USGA removed Fusco from the tournament last week after the caddie was caught taking cell phone photos of \u201cinternal course setup documents\u201d in the rules office two days before the competition. The documents included hole locations, alternate tees and footage from all four rounds of the tournament. The documents were on display on a wall in the office. A USGA spokesman said the caddies did not have credentials to access that office. <\/p>\n

While the United States Women\u2019s Golf Players Association, LPGA, says it \u201csupports\u201d the USGA\u2019s decision, the American Women\u2019s Tour has communicated that it will not sanction Fusco beyond her ejection from the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n

Fusco has made a statement a week after those events: \u201cLast week\u2019s incident at the US Women\u2019s Open was an unfortunate situation. I simply made a mistake, and while it is painful I have to accept the USGA\u2019s decision. I had no intention of gaining a competitive advantage or creating a problem for the USGA, the LPGA or my player. I am grateful for the support I have received over the past week, and I am anxious to get back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

For its part, the LPGA said in a statement: \u201cWe are aware that this was an unfortunate situation for both parties. We believe that the USGA\u2019s decision was appropriate and have determined that no further sanctions are necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Fusco will carry Sei Young Kim\u2019s bag again as a caddy this week at the Marathon Classic, a week after being booted out of the US Women\u2019s Open. The USGA removed Fusco from the tournament last week after the caddie was caught taking cell phone photos of \u201cinternal course setup documents\u201d in the rules […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}