I’ve always used the foot wedge rule, basically if you’re taking relief, you can use your foot wedge, and kick that sumbitch back in the rough.

"Everyone move 20 feet right" Crowd takes 2 steps back

The audience is out of their mind, what if he catches one thin or shanks it.

Hits a ball off the cart path, Crowd: Get in the hole!!!!!!

This is not the best clip to show somebody you are trying to convince that golf is fun to watch

ten minutes later going into my cringe compilation

Imagine taking this long to take a drop in your Saturday 4 ball. You would be kicked off the course for slow play.

"Just hit the damn thing" Tiger Woods, 2019

Yeah this was a bit much. The rules need to be simplified for sure, but keep in mind that there is a lot of money on the line here.

This is how me and my friends play.

TeN MinUtEs LaTeR

The minutiae of golf never ceases to amaze me.

“Ten minutes later” - Einstein, 1935

Although the ruling was correct this was WAY too drawn out. I'm happy to see the USGA revisiting some of their rulings because the process is very counterintuitive to POP

Anyone know what happened? I ran out of data waiting to see what happen.

Anybody standing around this guy hitting a ball is risking it lol

Screw that. If Sergio can play backwards out of a tree you can hit outta a puddle

When I’m in this situation I just take the ball and toss it back on the fairway

"must take full relief from casual water, can't even have the tip of his toe touching the water" *Hits the ball while his left toe is in the water LMAO

Who else was annoyed by the kid that was ten minutes later

These PGA guys are no doubt elite talents, but there are probably hundreds of guys not on tour who are just as skilled. What makes the tour guys truly special are moments like these. My goodness ...hitting a shot off a gravel path, under a branch with a sea of faces staring at you, any of which you could potentially kill with an errant shot - all that after a dizzying rules discussion and the clock already ticking away. Now that is pressure. Amazing.

Tell that kid his joke wasn't funny the first time, and it didn't age well the second time.

after all that he still hits with his foot in the puddle

Ridiculous. This is why the USGA has got to wake up and simplify the cart path and casual water relief rules. 10 minutes and 25 seconds, unbelievable.

How can we make this complicated... Cart path: “hold my beer” 🍺

left toe was still in the water...

6:55 wanted speith to turn around and just crack a 4 iron on his head

Jordan knows the rules better than any pro , won him the Open at Birkdale .

at 9.40 "if his toe is touching the puddle its not full relief" - so Jordan steps into the puddle and hits the ball with foot in the water - what a farce

What happened to "play the ball where it lies"? Holy crap. Golf has the weirdest rules of any sport. If they had taken any longer the puddles would be a non-factor via evaporation.

The drop rule is a stupid one. Move back 5 to 6 feet and place the ball. What difference does it make just as long as it would have the same kind of lie?

This is a great exchange between official and player. I rarely see or pay attention to these.

This is how ridiculous the rules of golf can be at times. You get only 5 minutes to find your ball but can waste 10 minutes or more on a drop ruling.

There have been cabinet meetings for world decisions last shorter than this.

Yeah idk where the rules official went but as he addressed the ball his stance had him touching the puddle and it wasn’t where he showed the official where he would be hitting the ball from.

The path is gravel, get a stick and dig a line. You'd drain that puddle in less than 30 seconds.

One of the reasons why golf needs to have a good hard look at itself

Unless lift, clean and place Rule is in effect, Speith should be assessed a penalty because he is NOT permitted to clean the ball. Cleaning the is permitted only in order to identify the ball. He violated the rules.

me: kicks it in to the rough a few feet right of it

8 years of college to be a golf rules expert

I'm glad these guys aren't engineers.

Am I the only one that thinks they are overcomplicating this?

Rule #1 it's always on the player. Touché on knowing the rules

I showed this video during a speech I gave on "The Excitement of Black Athletics".

I love how he pulls a driver to take relief when the rules say to use a club in which you plan to use next.

I love how his toe is in the water on the actual shot... lol 😂😂😂

Is this why a round of golf takes 6 hours?

This is insane. Move the ball back and let him rip. Golf needs a minor tweak.

I'm surprised the water didn't evaporate by the time they were done

6:53 "10 minutes later"

Who heard the douchy kid at “6:55” say 10 minutes later. Get back kid

After all of that I would have hit ground and the ball would have ended up back in the puddle.

Wow this is a tough situation! *Give him 40 mins on the clock.*

Jesus H, that was painful to watch, but I still watched. Pro Golf has some frustrating rules with situations like this.

You can't give Jordan Spieth anything else to think about before he swings. It already takes him a life time to hit it anyway.

That shot...holy. Brave gallery that's for sure.

Seriously... if this was Seve or Nicklaus they’d have just got straight over the ball and hit a low stinging draw under that Tree! Hate golf politics... just hit the damn ball! 😑

these rules are ridiculous

Play the ball as it lies. Hit the god damn ball!!!

After all of that the front part of of his left foot was still in the casual water (the puddle he dropped from) when he hit the shot, meaning he still didn't take complete relief.

Absolutely ridiculous! Wonder how this will go over when I try it on my Sunday league?

His foot was still in standing water in the end so that was a waste of time imo.

6:54 "ten minutes later" - yellow shirt kid

Bring up this video when someone says we need to move to a simpler set of golf rules

i thought for sure one of those little kids was gonna run and take the ball. he would've gotten away with it too lolol

Wow I can't believe all those people were standing in front of his shot. I don't care that they're pros. There's still a minimal possibility of shanking it and it could've line drive and really hurt someone.

It took awhile but they were on the right path.

Hey guys could someone tell me what happened? My phone ran out of data waiting to see what happened with the lie?

Two years later and I’m finishing up the rest of this video

What happened to play the ball where it lies? I always see Jordan complaining about lies, more than any golfer. It seems the PGA/USGA is getting more and more ridiculous with their rules.

Some men try to cure cancer and others try to hit a little white ball out of a puddle with a stick.

this is like a scene from Three Stooges or something

my mate Dave did this at our local municipal...I said " just chuck onto the grass pal, who wants to fuck up an iron",...that's what Dave did, shot a double bogey and still won the hole!...…..im not playing with Dave again!

this is why golf is so exciting !

I love golf and get out 2-3 a week. This is what is wrong with the sport...you need a PhD to understand the rules

Cart path rule or water puddle? Which takes the priority? Whatever is worse for the player.

This PGA official is awesome!!

wow, the excitement that is golf. I'm off to the National Watching Paint Dry Championships next for a bit of an adrenilin boost.

Kid in the red cap was 2 years old when this began. Now he’s in school!

Spieth is well known for prevaricating with a ball outside normal play. Was this a million dollar shot!

Dear Lord. He should be able to place it be hind the puddles. Does anyone else see this as ritually a waste of time?!

When he finally does play his foot is in the water.

His left toe was still touching the casual water when he played, so proper relief as not taken. 2 stroke penalty.

I don’t think people understand that he is taking long because he is trying to use the rules to his advantage in order to get a better angle back to the hole

All of you commenting that his toe was still in the water when he took the shot clearly were not listening to the conversation. Watch it again, and listen to the ruling this time.

Now you know why a round of golf takes six hours in the PGA

7:00 kid trying to make a joke made me cringe so hard, then says it again like no one heard him the first time . I’d be so embarrassed if I was his parent

I couldn't imagine taking this much time on any course I play.

I can't be the only one who cringed when the driver club head hit gravel at 7:03

What’s so complicated about dropping a damn ball. I play golf, and I’m still annoyed at this

Love the comment at 8:26 "if this goes much longer the puddle is going to be evaporated"

Man this is getting ridiculous, all that rigmarole just to have him play the shot with his left foot still in the water!

Read through almost the entire comment section and no one payed any attention to the fact that he actually played it off the path

I actually appreciate that this particular rules official understood the rules and took the time to explain and enforce the rules, and I like and respect J Spieth, but he often takes waaaaaaaay too long in these situations. . . . Then again, Patrick Reed would just look around to make sure no one was watching, then pick up his ball, dry it off, walk 133 feet left into the fairway, and quietly place it on a perfect spot, then move it around a little more, clean it again, push a tee into the ground, place the ball on the tee, pull out an 8-iron, and swing away.

KZfaqrs starting watching the video. Keep hope: he at last hits the ball at the end of the video. Alleluiah !

It is so nice watching golf without a gallery

6:55 "10 years later" 😂

Why didn’t he drop it on the other side of the small puddle so it would bounce backward?

all I saw was his shot slowly getting better over time hahaha

The algorithm has brought me back!!!