For nearly an hour Friday afternoon, it appeared a second-round charge by Sergio Garcia had been involved in a multi-vehicle wreck on No. 10 that dropped him from a share of the Masters lead to almost off the board.
Upon further review:
Originally charged with a triple-bogey 7 on the 10th hole — he had held a one-shot lead over Charley Hoffman when he reached the 10th tee — Garcia quickly tumbled to three shots back. When he bogeyed No. 13, scoreboards had him at even par and in 10th place.
But not all the scoreboards. ESPN’s inset leaderboard later showed him as two off the lead. So did the online version of Golf World.
“Yeah, I saw it on 13,” Garcia said. “The most important thing is I knew.”
No sooner had Garcia left the 13th green than tournament scoring central realized the problem and corrected all boards. Garcia’s score on No. 10 was revised to a bogey 5, dropping him back to 2 under, two shots off the lead.
The confusion stemmed from Garcia playing a provisional drive No. 10 after driving his first ball into the woods. He found his first ball and finish out the hole for a 5 but a scorer mistakenly believed he had played the provisional.
“Yeah, it was a little bit of a funky hole for us,” Garcia said.
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