Twelve months ago, Chinese 14-year-old Guan Tianlang had to deal with the attention of being the youngest player in Masters history, the youngest player to make the cut in a major and, rather less welcome, the first player in 18 years to receive a slow-penalty at the majors.
Of the limited research that does exist, studies show a slow death penalty system can harm families attempting to heal.
A slew of penalty flags is waving around the Vendée Globe fleet of singlehanders racing non-stop round the world.
-- 320 pages, with many photographs, describing the controversial Venice Cup, decided by a slow-play penalty, and the Bermuda Bowl.
The 14-year-old amateur Guan Tianlang's slow-play penalty at the Masters brought to the fore another issue plaguing golf at every level.
Despite rounds last year that exceeded five hours, the last slow-play penalty meted out at a United States Open was to Edward Fryatt in 1997.
Cancel the slow-play penalty and the carry-over, both controversial issues, and the Dutch would have won by 1 imp.
For the first time in the history of the game, a world title has been decided by a slow-play penalty.
That allowed Spithill to call for a slow-down penalty, which the New Zealand boat executed immediately, and any hope of winning, apart from an Oracle catastrophe, evaporated for New Zealand immediately.
Her most recent result was a second in Bermuda in January, when her team lost to the Dutch women by half an imp, the smallest margin ever, after receiving a disputed slow-play penalty.
Were the player in question not Tiger, it's doubtful there would be any controversy, and the Tianlang slow-play penalty would have been the only bit of golf-related rules enforcement to make the news this weekend.
