First, a quick, personal story so you'll know from where I'm coming.

A week ago, my wife, Patsy, and I had airplane tickets to leave Dayton, Ohio, at 6 a.m. We got moving (?) at 4 a.m. I dropped Patsy off with the luggage at the ticket area, returned the rental car and caught up with her. By then, I guess it was about 5:35 a.m. "We have a problem," she told me. It seems you have to check in for a 6 a.m. flight by 5:30. She arrived at the computer at 5:32. No go, the bland attendant told her.

So, for being two minutes late, we had to sit in the airport for about nine hours and, instead of reaching Key West at 11:30 a.m., we got home at about 9:30 p.m.

Wasn't so quick after all. Sorry.

My point is whether golf should have adjusted to Dustin Johnson grounding his club in an area that neither he, announcers nor viewers would identify as a sand trap.

I have a couple questions that I have not seen answered.

1. With a PGA official even announced as accompanying the pairing, why didn't this person warn Johnson that the plot of ground he was in was recognized as a sand trap?

2. Who ratted on him?

Oh, it was pretty obvious that he had grounded his club, but he got no advantage and the "sand trap" obviously had some grass trampled by spectators. So, who was to say it was a sand trap?

Give him a little leniency? Oh, no. This is the sacred game of golf, played by gentlemen and ladies who call penalties on themselves.

Ms. Delta wouldn't give us a break, but I'd be tempted to say no harm, no foul in Johnson's case.

So, Martin Kaymer won the PGA. All who had heard about him before last week, stand up. Those who hadn't, stay seated with me.

Until the ruling on Johnson, it was a very exciting tournament. I was rooting for a cluster of golfers, but none was named Martin. Near the end, I was for Bubba Watson (or Johnson), or Zach Johnson or Rory McIlroy. Earlier, it had been Matt Kucher, Nick Watney or even the old guard of Phil Mickelson or Jim Furyk.

I grieved as each seemed to have a meltdown on a course that an average golfer couldn't even negotiate.

When it ended, after Watson had gotten into deep, deep trouble, it was very anticlimactic.

Sports Editor Ralph Morrow's Armchair Comment appears exclusively in The Citizen. He can be reached at 305-292-7777, Ext. 264, at Rmorrow@keysnews.com and by Fax at 305-295-8016.