Tiger penalized for bad drop. Should he have withdrawn.

[Fan from VT]

Again, salt shaker.

This seems utterly ridiculous to me. It's all a holdover from a pre-money in sports and pre-technology era. There is no reason to have golfers keep track of their own score and self-scoring has absolutely no bearing on who the best golfer is. The idea that keeping your own score is as essential to golf as dribbling is to basketball is ridiculous. Dribbling is by definition a part of the sport; score keeping is how to keep track of how good you are at a sport. One is the sport, the other is monitoring the sport and the draconian rules were only necessary because the technology/funding for better score keeping didn't exist when the rules were made.

This whole score keeping in golf is like:
-NBA players call their own fouls.
-Tennis players call their own in/out, like in cheap amateur tourneys (the equivalent of old pro golf resources)
-Baseball eschewing any instant replay because "blown perfect games due to obviously bad and easily reversible calls are part of the glorious infallible tradition of this  great game."


It can never be helpful and can only be hurtful in determining the best golfer.