It’s a big call, maybe the biggest any golfer can ever make within the heat of competition.
To label any player a “cheat” takes serious consideration and ultimate certainty. You better be right. Getting it wrong is unthinkable. Think about it. Condemning another to a lifetime filled with the contempt of others – a state of affairs without hope of parole – is a huge step to take.
And yet, in a game with a sometimes head-shaking degree of, one of the questions I posed asked 40-odd European Tour players if they had ever seen a fellow player cheat in a tournament.