David Eger
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Tiger Woods’ Masters tattler, and the subsequent chaos that led to a two-stroke penalty, has been revealed.
The person originally identified as a “television viewer,” the person who called into Fred Ridley, the Masters’ competition committee chairman, to reveal Woods’ errant drop on the 15th hole during the second round, has been discovered to be David Eger, a Champions Tour golfer.
According to Golf.com, Eger (inset), a former tournament director for the PGA Tour and USGA, said he was able to rewind Woods’ shot that hit off of the flagstick and went into the water, forcing him to take a drop and then spotted Woods’ transgression.
“I could see there was a divot — not a divot, a divot hole — when he played the shot the second time that was not there the first time,” Eger said. “I played it again and again. I could see that the fairway was spotless the first time he played the shot and there was that divot hole, maybe three or four feet in front of where he played after the drop.”
Eger called and texted veteran PGA Tour official Mickey Bradley, who in turn brought the drop violation to the attention of Ridley and Mark Russell.
The next morning, Woods met with Ridley and was assessed the two-stroke penalty and invoking rule 33-7, which allows a wrong committed to be righted, saving him from disqualification. Woods finished fourth, four strokes behind winner Adam Scott.
— With Reuters