Nassau, The Bahamas …

Tournament host Tiger Woods has avoided penalty after a near 40-minute trial-by-video review of an incident down the last hole on day two of the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.

Woods tee-shot right at the 18^th hole came to rest under a bush right of the fairway and with Woods crouching down to play an 8-iron brush-like stroke back to the fairway.

The 14-time Major winner eventually walked off with a double-bogey ‘6’ and after a flawless prior 17 holes in a round of a three-under par 69 for a two-under total on the Albany course.

“Did he hit the ball twice?”

It’s been determined there’s no penalty for Tiger Woods on the 18th hole. pic.twitter.com/xMCUAnBkcB

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Waiting for Woods was a PGA Tour rules official, Mark Watson to advise they needed to look at video footage of the incident.

As Wood waited in the scorer’s hut, Watson headed the long distance to the TV compound to view footage of the incident, and while Woods three other groups behind Woods came and left the scorer’s hut.

After some 40-minutes, Woods finally emerged to declare:  “No penalty”.

Woods was cleared of any breach as the use of ‘slow-motion’ TV footage cannot be used to penalise a golfer when the golfer is unaware under the naked eye he or she had breached the Rules of Golf.

“I didn’t feel I made contact twice being such a small, little ball strike there in hitting it sideways there,” said Woods.

“Under slow-motion and high def’ you can see the ball did hit the clubface twice but in real time I didn’t feel that at all.

“So, there is no penalty.”

Watson later addressed the media to report Woods was cleared of any rules breach under Rule 34-3/10 and one of the ‘Decisions’ of the Rules of Golf that was introduced into the game in May 2017.

“Tiger said that he did not think he hit the ball twice,” said Watson.

“Looking at it in the regular speed on a high-definition television, you couldn’t tell that at all, but when you slowed it down to ultraslow motion high-definition television, you could see where the club [sic] did stay on the clubface quite a bit of time and it looked like he might have hit it twice, but there’s no way he could tell that.

“In this age of high-definition slow motion television, we’ve got a decision at 34-3/10, Limitations on Use of Video Evidence.

“Basically it says if the player did not know that he did that and the only way you can tell that is by using this type of slow motion technology, he’s exempt from the rules, so there’s no penalty there.”