Let me get this straight. Tiger Woods took an erroneous drop but was not sure if he made a mistake. He leaves the course signing an incorrect scorecard but believes he did the right thing before leaving the course. A viewer tips off Master's officials who in spirit changed the rule to help a golfer who does not intentionally break a rule a two stroke penalty instead of a DQ. Many times golf has dumb rules like the building a stance rule that Craig Stadler broke by placing a towel under his pant leg to make sure his clothes did not get soiled. In this case, I like the the Masters changed an instant DQ to a two shot penalty. But the next part is a head scratcher.  

     So what's the point?

This is a club run by millionaires and billionaires and the tournament is run by mostly volunteers outside of the paid key tournament staff.

    Why in the hell do they not have a rules official following every group?

When I heard this after the fact they did not, I was astonished. The game of golf has what a couple of dozen key rules that have tons of adendums that make it a tricky book. Is it really hard to find three to four dozen people that can help the players out and keep the integrity of the tournament? Why does the game of golf allow the audience to call in and say a rule is being broken? That is just poor logic.

With that in mind, I would like to ring Jim Joyce's neck because I clearly saw him screw up a perfect game a few years ago when he ruled a man clearly out safe. Anyone calling MLB or Fox Sports Detroit would be hung up on. The PGA Tour should do the same to those that call in.

Even smart people do dumb things. Tiger deserved a penalty but the Master's tournament should make this right and right away.
The referenced story is below.

Report: Champions Tour's Eger made 'Dropgate' call

• By Golf Channel Digital
• May 1, 2013 11:04 AM ET

The television viewer who saved Tiger Woods from disqualification at this year’s Masters has been uncovered – and, according to Sports Illustrated, it’s Champions Tour player David Eger.
After watching and re-watching Woods take a drop on the 15^th hole in the second round, Eger – who worked for years as a tournament director with both the PGA Tour and the USGA and now plays on the Champions Tour – told SI that he phoned PGA Tour rules official Mickey Bradley, who was working the Masters but had already left the course for the day.
“I could see there was a divot – not a divot, a divot hole – when he played the shot the second time that was not there the first time,” Eger told SI.
According to SI, Bradley then relayed the info to Fred Ridley, the Masters’ competition committee chairman, and Mark Russell, the PGA Tour’s vice president of rules and competition, saying that Woods “didn’t appear to play by Rule 26 1-a” – requiring a player to drop “as nearly as possible” to the previous position – and “appeared to be 3-4 feet back” from the original divot for his third shot, according to the report.
After Woods finished his round, Ridley reportedly sent a text back to Bradley, explaining that Woods “was closer than that,” referring to Eger’s reference of 3-4 feet back, and that a closer examination of the situation would be “splitting hairs.” So Ridley did not ask Woods about the drop that day.
Eger’s call, however, saved Woods from being disqualified, because it enabled Ridley to invoke Rule 33-7, a revision that allows a disqualification to be waived. Woods, then, was assessed a two-shot penalty and allowed to continue playing.