{"id":394591,"date":"2022-11-12T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394591"},"modified":"2022-11-12T08:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T13:00:54","slug":"hubbard-disqualified-at-houston-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/hubbard-disqualified-at-houston-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubbard disqualified at Houston Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hubbard was bizarrely disqualified after the second round of the Housten Open when he added a 15th club to his golf bag.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark Hubbard is a DQ after the second round of the Cadence Bank Houston Open due to a violation of Rule 4.1c.&#8221; PGA Tour Communications said in a statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mark Hubbard is a DQ after the second round of the Cadence Bank Houston Open due to a violation of Rule 4.1c.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard knowingly added a 15th club at the turn and used the club several times without declaring it out of play.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOURComms\/status\/1591127033748553728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"bordeaux-static-slot-1\" class=\"bordeaux-slot\" data-feat-ref=\"bordeaux-feat-id-148\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Hubbard knowingly added a 15th club at the turn and used the club several times without declaring it out of play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The American had missed a number of fairways with his driver and decided to add a new one to his golf bag. However, after striking the ball with the new club, he was instantly disqualified.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard explained that he started the round with one driver, but he wasn\u2019t getting the type of spin he wanted and was missing fairways, so he \u201cknowingly\u201d added a second driver that he used several times on the back nine.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he was not aware that the penalty was a DQ, thinking that he would be docked two shots per hole.<\/p>\n<p>Hubbard has now failed to make three consecutive weekends on Tour after starting the fall with three straight top-30s, including a T-5 at the Sanderson Farms Championship.<\/p>\n<p>He entered the week top 45 in every strokes-gained category except for off the tee, where he ranks No. 133 and is losing 0.175 shots per round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Hubbard was bizarrely disqualified after the second round of the Housten Open when he added a 15th club to his golf bag. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394592,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The American added 15th club to his golf bag","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394591"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394591"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}