Score a victory for common sense.
It was announced Monday that beginning in 2018, golf's major professional tours will no longer allow viewer call-ins to dictate potential rules violations captured on television broadcasts.
This is a triumph for the purists, for fans of the game who never believed the intricacies of the rule book should be enforced and litigated in the aftermath of such activity -- and certainly not from a couch potato with a remote control in one hand and a phone dialing some clandestine number in the other.
This is a win for those who witnessed Tiger Woods' post-round "witch hunt" at the 2013 Masters or Lexi Thompson's called-in penalty at this year's ANA Inspiration and felt queasy about the eventual result.