My Top 10 Rulings

7 Tiger Woods
1999 Phoenix Open
TPC Scottsdale

Speaking of immovable objects, at the 1999 Phoenix Open, at the 13th hole of the final round, Tiger Woods got the break of the tournament after his tee shot landed in front of a boulder in a desert area to the left of the fairway. Rules official Orlando Pope quickly decided the obstacle fell in the category of a loose impediment which wasn't "solidly embedded'' and therefore could be moved. About a dozen men from the gallery rolled the 1,000-pound rock out of the way, and Woods hit into a greenside bunker, from where he got up and down for a birdie four.
Although this ruling didn’t affect the outcome of the tournament (Rocco Mediate won the event, three strokes ahead of Woods in third), Woods was a Phoenix darling, having had a hole-in-one at the raucous 16th green in 1997, sparking the so-called “loudest noise ever heard on a golf course,” and it was suggested that he had received favourable treatment. Although the decision was widely panned at first, it was completely acceptable and was backed by previous rulings in similar situations.
Of more concern to Woods in Phoenix that year was the drunk that heckled Woods at the 4th hole of that final round. After security wrestled him to the ground, they found a loaded gun in his backpack. Woods refused to return to the tournament until security was reviewed, and he didn’t play again until 2001. Unfortunately, at that tournament, someone rolled an orange onto the green as he was putting and the world number one hasn’t been back since.