The Golf Blog: Does Rules Official John Paramor need to retire from golf after Guan penalty?
The Golf Blog says: Enough is enough. European Tour Rules Official John Paramor has refereed one too many golf tournaments. He’s been in golf for over 30 years, and he’s built up a reputation of making controversial–if not inane–slow play rulings. Tiger Woods has even criticized Paramor for interfering with a tournament showdown between Padraig Harrington and him.
Well, today, Paramor penalized only 1 golfer of the entire field, even though it was taking many groups well over 5 hours to finish their rounds in gusty conditions. That one person was the 14-year-old amateur–and 8th grader–from China, Tianlang Guan.
Why was Guan the only player penalized? Are we seriously to believe that Guan was the only out of the entire field to be playing slowly? Keep in mind, Guan’s playing partners Matteo Manassero (+5) and Ben Crenshaw (+20) didn’t get penalized and they played worse than Guan. Crenshaw shot an 80 and 84–that’s got to eat up some time, playing 10 more shots than Guan. Something doesn’t smell right, Mr. Paramor. Luckily for Paramor, Guan still made the cut on the number (+4). Had Guan missed the cut because of the penalty, Paramor would have been on the hot seat.
TweetQuite right Mr. Paramor, that lad needed to be disciplined. Remarkable. twitter.com/TweeterAlliss/…
— Tweeter Alliss (@TweeterAlliss) April 12, 2013
