Leading members of the European Tour media are due to meet on Tuesday in St. Andrews with Martin Slumbers, CEO of the R and A.

One of the items now sure to be on the agenda is Rickie Fowler’s protest over a new Rules drop that saw him slapped with a one-stroke penalty on day two of the WGC – Mexico Championship.

Fowler’s mistake was to take a wrong drop after he shanked his second shot from the 10th tee.

Instead of adopting the new drop from ‘knee height’, Fowler, and clearly without thinking, took an arm’s length drop and as he and golfers around the world had done for so many years since 1984.

Rory McIlroy taking a drop under the new rules with regards to ‘dropping’ the ball

Well,  the shoulder height drop was changed to a new knee height drop on January 1st this year.

The thing is neither his caddy nor playing partners Jon Rahm nor Patrick Reed watched him go through the drop, and his caddie was looking at the yardage book.

It was then someone mentioned something to Reed who then mentioned it to Fowler and with Fowler immediately putting his arms up.

“It’s on me. I took the shot. It was no big deal,” Fowler said in a story by AP.

“But I think with the new rules that have been put in place, it’s not doing any favours for our sport.”

Fowler, who went on to post a two-over par 73, added the new ‘drop’ rule to be a ‘terrible change’ saying:  “I definitely think it will get changed.”

www.golfbytourmiss.com will keep you posted on what the CEO of the R  & A says Tuesday.