Rarely has such a move of integrity been as decisive as it was in Nevada, where it cost one golfer one of the most prestigious titles outside the PGA Tour.

As reported by the Reno Gazette-Journal, 17-year-old rising high school senior Scottie Scheffler captured the 2013 U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship at Martis Camp Golf Course by edging past 16-year-old Hattiesburg, Miss. native Davis Riley. Yet Scheffler’s victory wasn’t the real storyline; rather it was about the fact that his 3&2 victory was the product of a final hole one-stroke penalty that was self-reported by Riley himself.

Here is how the Gazette-Journal ably described the scene at the 16th hole during the final match play round of the Junior Amateur.

He addressed the ball, checked his line, looked back down and then stood straight up and said, "It moved."

With the nation’s most prestigious junior amateur tournament on the line, Riley, a 16-year-old from Hattiesburg, Miss., called a one-stroke penalty on himself.

After consulting with a rules official and repositioning his ball, his very speedy, now-par putt fell just short, and he conceded Scheffler’s tap-in par putt …

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/mississippi-teen-falls-final-hole-prestigious-u-junior-095716326.html

Somebody get a flashlight and a caulking gun, it looks like another CAF fluff piece has seeped into the premises...

This has nothing to do with CAF. This is about somebody who could have won, if he had kept his mouth shut. But honesty won the day, and so even though he lost, in a back handed way he really won.

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Somebody get a flashlight and a caulking gun, it looks like another CAF fluff piece has seeped into the premises...

This has nothing to do with CAF. This is about somebody who could have won, if he had kept his mouth shut. But honesty won the day, and so even though he lost, in a back handed way he really won.

Sounds like a Mormon.

Maybe we should all be Mormons.

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