Marcel Siem’s 10-shot penalty foils bid to save Tour card at French Open

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It was not quite the 58-shot penalty suffered by Lee Anne Walker at the Senior LPGA Championship, but Marcel Siem's 10-shot infraction at the French Open on Thursday ensured this week would be remembered for eye-watering and scorecard-ruining sanctions. It was a simple, honest mistake by the German at Le Golf National, but so had been Walker's the previous day in Indiana. Siem – a four-time winner on the European Tour who most memorably lifted the World Cup alongside Bernhard Langer in 2006 – believed the preferred lies rule was in operation on the soggy Ryder Cup layout and lifted, cleaned and replaced his ball on five fairways on the front nine.

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