Was I the only one who noticed that in Brooks's media interview on Sunday evening, someone asked a question about his shot over the green on #6, and he referred to the 7-iron Jon Rahm had just hit and come up short with, and yet he went over the green trying to hit a 3/4 seven iron.
Thankfully, no one asked how he knew!
Maybe Rahm deliberately took something off his shot to deke Brooks, although doing so and missing way short was at best an overcorrection. Or maybe they were sharing info [quietly] most of the day, and the swirling wind just fooled them. They certainly had plenty of time to share. There was hardly a hole where they didn't wait on Cantlay.
I know there are quite a few of you who are going to cry "rules are rules" until we're all in our graves, and I understand why. But this is a bullshit rule, because it is routinely violated, and indeed never enforced except when they want to. That's the way authoritarian countries work . . . there are rules against everything, and they are selectively enforced only to punish whom the authorities wish to punish. And unfortunately, I do notice many things in America starting to go in that direction.
It reminds me of the Pine Tar rule in baseball, which was in the rule book but seldom enforced, until it was deemed unfair to enforce it against George Brett hitting a game-winning HR, at which point it was rescinded for good. Was that a good thing? Probably yes . . . you don't want the results on the field overturned by the officials. Was it right by the rules of the day? Absolutely not, but few complained because of whom it was enforced against.