Dq’d from his first American junior because of a hat, bank steel pushes forward

Steele banks dreamed the script many times.

17-year-old from the Lancaster, South Carolina, who started playing competitive golf two years earlier, that in his first American amateur in the Trinity forest and with the top College College, he also watched himself in the country.

“But it is obvious that he needs more than the average turn; he was complete 180,” said Steele on Wednesday night, the day after being disqualified by 77. The American Junior Championship.

Steele has disqualification, however, was not their own. Official officials found that his local Caddy, engaged in the week, measured the wind twice with an artificial object. He simply threw his hat in the air, he broke the rule 4.3a (2), or expanding, their staff, must not use “an artificial object to obtain other information about the wind (wind direction).”

The USGA confirmed a reason to disqualify with Golfchannel.com.

Steele said his Caddy did not know a specific rule, nor he or his two play competitors. As far as they knew, throwing someone’s hat to test the wind was harmless as well with some grass knives.

“I definitely don’t want to blame my bathtub,” Steele explained by phone, just got home from Dallas. “Everyone makes mistakes, everything happens for a reason, and I don’t want to do anything against anyone. And I was in that situation, and I would obviously blame. It didn’t intend to do anything. It was just an unfortunate result.”

Steele opened his week with 6-over 76 in Brook Hollow, a course of companion for Boydra and weigh two look over two moves. The second round would begin in the Trinity Forest with Bogey, but he found something and started the string of some couple.

After filling the wedge, five-foot-six-six-4 shooting, Steele walked to green, smoking in his hand, when he turned back and saw his bathtub with an official. He didn’t mean much, but after a short lady, Steele was stopped on his way to the next tea. He was officially informed about the Steete Caddy’s mistake before Steele’s approach, and he asked the player whether he would testify any other cases of the bath using his hat. Steele said he didn’t, he gave a two-stroke sentence for one offense, and continued to play on.

He won’t give up, Steele announced his bathtub, “Well, looks like we’re going to have to do two more birds than we thought.”

Only when Steele finished his ninth hole, still in 9, the officials called again. Caddy was also seen with his hat in a similar way on the fifth hole, and because there were more offenses, Steele was disqualified.

“I tried to deal with the best way I can,” Steele said, whose only frustration was that they did not find out about the fifth hole when it happened.

“We’re teaching then, that’s the first instance, we get punishment, and then I still have to finish my American younger experience,” he added.

This is just the latest injury to the Kadi rules in the USGA amateur championship. On the American Amateur in Bandon Dunes, Argentina’s Segundo Oliva Pinto lost 18. hole in his round of 16 matches with a possible champion Ty Strafaci after the local Caddy Pinto It is displayed on camera bending and sand test by hand. Two years before that, in the US Amateur from the 201th at a pebble beach, Akshay Bhatia brought a hole After his Caddy took the cart back from the toilet Of a volunteer who thought the official of the USGA rules; Bhatia continued to lose the game in the first round in 19 holes.

“What can you do? I’ll have a lot of opportunities to play on this tournament, so I’m not too upset about it,” Bhatia said then.

Steele, refraining from high school, also hopes for more options. This was the first American Junior who tried to qualify, and he broke through 7 for 3 to break his map, an impressive feat that the Steele did not record his first golf tournament until he waived before another golf before. Steele just finished the Grand National Tournament for Charlotte Soccer Academy in the late June 2023. Year, when he told his parents on his own parents on his own parents. About a year earlier, he started playing rounds with some older friends from the church, and since then he gripped all golf that could be between football training and games. He won the HV3 invitation, the Harold Varner III hosted tournament, earlier this year.

It is now on the edge of playing the NCAA division and golf, because several college coach dated in Dallas.

Steele was initially worried about what people would think about words, “DQ”, next to that name at the bottom of the 264 player leader. This was the first time he was ever punished, let alone disqualified. His Caddy was so devastated that he asked for steel that he did not pay him; They ignored that request. “That wouldn’t be right,” Steele said.

Steele and his Caddy, before exchanging goodbyes, ended with that agreement: “This will only make my story much better.”

“I’ll just use this as a pure motivation to continue until I understand that a golf is a hard game with a lot of different rules,” Steele said. “I hope it doesn’t happen again, but I can’t worry about it.

“I’ll go back to practice tomorrow, trying to fix it.”