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Natthakritta Vongtaveelap was disqualified throughout Spherical 1 on the U.S. Girls’s Open when her caddie used a rangefinder throughout competitors.
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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The week is ending a bit early for one U.S. Girls’s Open competitor.
Natthakritta Vongtaveelap, an LPGA rookie, was disqualified mid-way by Spherical 1 at Pebble Seaside after her caddie used a rangefinder on a number of events.
“Throughout the first spherical, on a number of events the caddie for Natthakritta Vongtaveelap used a distance measuring system, which isn’t allowed within the U.S. Girls’s Open,” the USGA stated in an announcement. “The primary breach is a normal penalty, and the second breach resulted in disqualification.”
Vongtaveelap, who teed off on No. 10, was knowledgeable of the infraction after finishing the 14th gap. She was even par for the day after making one birdie and one bogey over her first 5 holes.
Rangefinders are authorized most weeks on the LPGA Tour, nevertheless, they’re barred throughout through the U.S. Girls’s Open and AIG Girls’s Open.
First-year professional Zach Williams was disqualified through the Korn Ferry Tour’s Memorial Well being Championship final week below related circumstances. Rangefinders aren’t allowed on the PGA Tour or Korn Ferry Tour.
“I ought to have identified, and its [sic] fully on me,” Williams tweeted. “Laborious to swallow however you must. I’ll be again very quickly.”
Vongtaveelap, a 20-year-old from Thailand, was competing in her first U.S. Girls’s Open. She has received 5 occasions on the Thai LPGA Tour, however remains to be trying to find her first victory in the US. She completed second within the Honda LPGA Thailand and tallied one other high 10 the subsequent week, however has not registered one other top-25 end since.
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