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Holmes gained advantage by dropping ball farther away from hole

On the first hole during the final round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship, J.B. Holmes found some early trouble and went afoul of the Rules of Golf, resulting in a rare “must correct” situation.

Holmes had pulled his tee shot left of the first fairway, into the adjacent water hazard at Trump National Doral. Under Rule 26-1c, one of his options for relief, under penalty of one stroke, was to drop within two club lengths of a point on the opposite margin of the hazard that was equidistant to the hole from the point where his ball last crossed the margin of the lateral water hazard.