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Originally Posted by G50
In golf, you get penalized for intent all the time.
For example, a swing is not counted as a swing unless you *intended* to make a strike at the ball. So a non-contact duff is a swing or not, completely depending on what the golfer says his intent was.
So, no problem getting penalized for intent.
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More often than not, you get penalized for what you do, not the intent. Examples would include making accidental contact with a ball, as on a green. Or, accidently grounding a club in a sand trap. Etc....
We can argue this all day. None of us are participants in the event and none of us have any direct knowledge of what took place. Tiger will get convicted in the court of public opinion, regardless of what he did. Doesn't matter to me, as I am not Tiger.
I'm rooting for Freddy, anyway.
JR