| Tiger Woods was distancing himself from angry | | | | by describing the lay as being awful, and most |
| claims that he was being more favourable treated by | | | | difficult for Tiger to make the shot. Roe stated it |
| the R&A Officials during the opening round of the | | | | was very movable and moments later went on to |
| British Open at Carnoustie. | | | | prove his point. |
| Tigers ball came to rest from his drive from the 10th | | | | Later Roe was to be surprised even more to find |
| tee against Television cables. Mr Holmes the R&A | | | | out that Tiger had not asked for the rule to be |
| official with the party, tried and failed to move the | | | | invoked. Tiger Woods himself stated that he had |
| cables himself and failed deemed them a immovable | | | | been surprised to be offered the drop as he did not |
| obstruction. Hence tiger was entitled and given a free | | | | ask for it. (Television Cables are normally classed as |
| drop. However Mark Roe the radio commentator | | | | movable but on this occasion immovable). |
| who was also with the group told his listeners that in | | | | Later Holmes said it was ridiculous that he had |
| the twenty or so years he had played the European | | | | deemed the cables immovable because of whose ball |
| Tour he had never seen or heard of such a drop | | | | it was, (Tigers), and that he had applied the letter of |
| given. He suggested that Holmes only called it | | | | the rule. I couldn't move the cables, so they became |
| because it was Tiger Woods. He also went further | | | | immovable, and that is that. |