{"id":21737,"date":"2019-01-10T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/spieth-and-other-stars-criticize-new-knee-high-dropping-rule\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:50:58","slug":"spieth-and-other-stars-criticize-new-knee-high-dropping-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/spieth-and-other-stars-criticize-new-knee-high-dropping-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Spieth and other stars criticize new knee-high dropping rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It never rains to everyone\u2019s liking, but as far as the new rule of dropping from knee height instead of dropping from shoulder height is concerned, it seems that there is agreement among superstars, who have not liked this novelty at all.<\/p>\n

If last week it was Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau who were talking about how, in their opinion, ill-advised the new rule is \u2013\u201cdropping from there<\/span>is a bit absurd,\u201d said the latter \u2013 , now it is <\/span>Jordan Spieth, who makes his 2019 debut at the Sony Open this week, who is not biting his tongue when it comes to criticizing the rule change. <\/span>\u201cI really don\u2019t understand it,\u201d Spieth told reporters. <\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cYou drop it from knee height, but what\u2019s the advantage over dropping it from shoulder height? <\/span>In the latter case it\u2019s probably a disadvantage, so why can\u2019t you do that? In my opinion, you should<\/span>be able to drop in the stretch from shoulder height to knee height.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Spieth added that he doesn\u2019t expect regular golfers to take the new rule seriously. <\/span>\u201cWhat if they just take a drop of the cart path?<\/span>What if they just take a drop from the cart path?\u201d <\/span>I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll care. <\/span>They\u2019ll still drop from shoulder height, although technically you could be penalized for that. <\/span>It doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It never rains to everyone\u2019s liking, but as far as the new rule of dropping from knee height instead of dropping from shoulder height is concerned, it seems that there is agreement among superstars, who have not liked this novelty at all. If last week it was Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau who were talking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21737","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\/21737","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=21737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}