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We have the testimony from those who worked on the project and who made the journey that are still with us today.That’s an awful lot of wool to pull over people’s eyes. Conspiracy theorists often talk about faking the Moon landing, singular – we travelled to the Moon nine times and landed on it six times.Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) currently in lunar orbit which lets you see with your own eyes the Apollo landing sites.Laser ranger reflectors left on the Moon, which enable scientists to make precise measurements of its distance by firing a laser at them from Earth.Abrasive lunar dust that still covers the spacesuits.382kg of Moon rock brought back and studied by scientists.

Moon landing deniers always fail to account for the vast mountain of direct evidence: Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University The Smith ruling, right or wrong, has only added fuel to the fire, a problem magnified by the fact it was completely avoidable.Īnother black eye for the game at a time when it can least afford it.A view of the Apollo 16 S-IVB impact site on the lunar surface, as seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It’s difficult to remember a time when golf has felt as openly divided and bitter as it does right now and for all who love the game that is more than just disappointing, it’s painful. In that scenario, conspiracy theories thrive. It’s not only a bad look for the Tour but suggests a level of incompetence or system failure that is difficult to comprehend. As happened the next day, he would have readily admitted he (unknowingly) breached the rule. It’s not as though there would have been any difficulty asking Smith the question at the end of the third round. What is the point of rules officials watching the broadcast if they fail to act on situations they later admit had some kind of question mark hanging over them? To be clear, Smith is at fault here for not knowing the rule and he accepted the two penalty strokes without argument.īut the Tour is also at fault, perhaps in an even worse way, for their poor handling of the situation. Having not bothered to ask Smith about the incident before he signed his card on the Saturday they instead asked him Sunday morning when he readily admitted the ball was touching the line. “We felt very comfortable at the time that he (Smith) was familiar with the rule, and … it was such a quick view that we had at that time, we decided it wasn’t worth following up on.” But according to PGA Tour Chief rules referee Gary Young:

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In the Smith case, PGA Tour officials admitted they saw the drop on TV and thought the ball was close to the line. I had a veteran friend once tell me, The biggest lie I have ever been told is that violence is evil, except in. No longer would a call-in from a member of the public be investigated because tournament rules staff would instead be assigned to watch the broadcast and act on any potential issues. Another black eye for the game at a time when it can least afford it.' - Rod Morri. 'The Smith ruling, right or wrong, has only added fuel to the fire, a problem magnified by the fact it was completely avoidable. In the aftermath of perhaps the greatest rules debacle of them all (when Lexi Thompson was reported by a TV viewer for an infraction the previous day and penalised four strokes on the 12th hole Sunday at a major), authorities said they had solved the problem. When Smith dropped on Saturday his ball came to rest on the red line marking the hazard, quite clearly not ‘complete relief’.īut here is where it gets interesting. That is, when the drop is taken the ball must lie completely outside the hazard, including any lines marking the boundary of said hazard.

The rules clearly state that when taking relief in such a situation the player must take ‘complete relief’.

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It was a straightforward situation, the sort any professional golfer might encounter dozens of times over the course of a career. The rules incident involving Lexi Thompson at the 2017 ANA Inspiration was supposed to end rules controversies.

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