Now that the dust has settled, and we have found out the players were warned about these "bunkers" outside the ropes, it's just a shame that this had to happen to Johnson. He certainly believed he had simply hit his tee shot into the gallery, not thinking that the gallery would be standing in a bunker. Should a rules official have informed him he was in a bunker, yeah, I guess that would have helped, although I'm sure there was no obligation on their part to do so.
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