ANA - LPGA Penalty on Lexi Thompson
The USGA, LPGA and PGA need to get reasonable.
I think each group should have a scorer who is also a rules official and someone who knows the rules very well. When the round is over then the scorer can attest and it is a done deal. Letting TV viewers change the score the next day is totally ridiculous.
I was at the first two rounds of the ANA. They were calling for rules officials all over the place and delaying play. I think I know most of the rules. I can assure you that Julie Inkster knew the rule when she hit it into the water but still she called for an official and everyone waits
Let the rules official/scorer figure it out and if they can't., call in a head honcho. But don't delay play waiting for someone when the players know the rule and more importantly don't change the score the next day because of something on TV.
SoCal
The two strokes for signing the card was the real problem
Once a day is done, it's done. It's bad enough to penalize her after the fact for a minor (but real) infraction, but it's worse to penalize her for the scorecard error when no one at the course knew it happened until the USGA checked it's e-mail.
If you are going to allow callers and e-mailers to be rules officials, you have to have a point where a score becomes concrete. If the sanctioning organization can't make a ruling prior to the start of the next round, at least the scorecard penalty, if not the whole thing, should be waived