I got a lot of Penalty Strokes, too

On the European tour the day after Lee Ann Walker's issue, a player was playing under the "Lift, Clean and Place" rules.  Unfortunately for him, the rest of the players were not.  After five times of lifting his ball in play, cleaning it and placing it (in a different spot than he lifted from) he got a total of 10 penalty strokes.

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