The NCAA has strange enough rules as it is. Combine it with the complicated guidelines of golf and its easy to see how two golfers competing in this year's Women's NCAA Golf Championship received bizarre stroke penalties for going to the bathroom mid-round.
Northwestern’s Sarah Cho and Kent State’s Kelly Nielsen, playing in the same group, received a two-shot penalty Sunday at Rich Harvest Farms in Illinois for taking a cart ride to the bathroom.
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Rules state a player “must not ride on any form of transportation during a stipulated round unless authorized.” Going to the restroom apparently is not automatically “authorized.”
According to Golfweek, Cho, who started her round on No. 10, illegally drove herself to a bathroom coming off 18. The same for Nielsen when a Kent State staffer drive her to a restroom coming off No. 13.
The two-stroke penalty had no affect on the outcome of Northwestern and Kent State's match play as the Wildcats went on to win, 3-2.
Northwestern won the stroke play portion of the competition by eight strokes over Stanford.
