The LPGA rules staff is standing by its decision that Lydia Ko did not have to definitively identify her golf ball stuck in a tree to be granted an unplayable lie today at the North Texas Shootout.
Ko’s lob shot at the 14th hole Thursday at the Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout went into a tree beside the green and didn’t come down. Her caddie, Jason Hamilton, climbed the tree but was unable to definitively identify, or knock loose, a ball in a branch just above him, where spectators said Ko’s ball came to rest.