PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Natthakritta Vongtaveelap of Thailand made it by means of solely 5 holes Thursday within the U.S. Girls’s Open when she was disqualified for her caddie’s use of a rangefinder.
The USGA mentioned the Thai golfer’s caddie used the distance-measuring system on a number of events. She was even par by means of the 14th gap, having began on No. 10, when she was disqualified.
Such gadgets are allowed at LPGA Tour-sanctioned occasions aside from the U.S. Girls’s Open, which is run by the USGA, and the Girls’s British Open, which is run by the R&A.
Vongtaveelap missed the lower final week within the Girls’s PGA Championship. The PGA of America permits rangefinders, hopeful it’s going to assist with tempo of play for when gamers get out of place and would possibly want additional time to measure distances.
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