Honest Golfer Wins Praise After Breaking Rule

For the first time in five attempts, amateur golfer Christopher Crawford looked poised to qualify for the 64-player match-play tournament at the United States Amateur Championship in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Then his game went, well, downhill. While preparing for a shot, 23-year-old Crawford realized his caddie was using the slope function on his distance-measuring device to read the course at Bel Air Country Club, reports ESPN. 

Though measuring instruments are permitted, Crawford's caddie—a last-minute fill-in for his regular caddie, who was sick—apparently didn't realize slope-reading was banned. What was Crawford to do? "I know nobody else would have known," he says. But "I knew instantly that I had to disqualify myself."

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