THE NABISCO CHAMPIONSHIP

March 26, 2000

Barb Trammell

BARB TRAMMELL: We actually received a call from the TV compound, I believe when the final group was on the 15th hole. They asked us to go down and look at the tape because they saw something that they didn't know, but might be a rules violation. And what had happened is on the 14th green, Aree had addressed her ball on the putting green, the ball then subsequently moved. It was hard to tell whether or not she nudged it with her putter in her forward press; might be one reason, but she had definitely addressed it. The ball moved forward, maybe an eighth of an inch, and then she putted from that position, which is a violation of rule 18-2B, ball moving after address. Had she noticed that the ball had moved and replaced the ball, she would have incurred a one-stroke penalty, but because Aree didn't even know the ball moved, because she did not know that, obviously the ball was not replaced; it was played from a wrong position, which is a breach of ruling 18-2B. So she incurred the general penalty of two strokes on that hole. We met Aree in the scoring tent, obviously, before she signed her card, let her know what we had seen, offered her the opportunity to view the tape if she wished, which she did. She and her coach went down to the truck with us and she totally agreed and saw that the ball did, in fact, move. We showed the angle -- the wide-angle photo did show that Aree was looking at the hole at the time the ball actually moved; so she had no knowledge of the ball's movement. But she did see that, and did acknowledge and incurred the two-stroke penalty on hole 14.

BARB TRAMMELL: Very good. She was matter of fact. She understood the rule, but had no knowledge, obviously, that it had moved. If it had, she obviously would have called for a ruling at the time, and just had no knowledge that that even happened, but she was a very good sport about it. I must say, very mature for a 13-year-old.

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