Jordan Spieth is not known for being a fast player. On Friday at the 2016 PGA Championship, his group fell a hole behind because he spent more time talking to a rules official and trying to get the proper drop than he did playing the rest of the hole.

Spieth sprayed his tee shot off the 7th tee box, and it landed in a puddle on a cart path near the hole. There was some confusion over where exactly Spieth was supposed to drop his ball because of the combination of the puddles and the cart path.

He discussed it with a rules official for nearly 10 minutes (complete with jokes from both which you can hear below), dropped his ball no less than four times and finally ended up placing it about three feet from its original location in the puddle. Spieth punched his shot out over the green and went on to make bogey.

For a while it seemed like this might turn into a "Tiger Woods at the 2013 Masters" moment all over again. You have to take full relief from casual water for it to be a proper drop. And Spieth might not have as it appears his foot was still barely touching the casual water (i.e. puddle) when he addressed his ball.

But Spieth explained afterwards why it was not a penalty.

"Ultimately I still ended up playing with a toe in the water," Spieth said. "Because of the angle had changed from the angle of my stance looking at the pin, [the rules official] said he was very happy with it, that it was relief and I was altering my stance to play a different shot, which is true."

Spieth was doubly OK too, according to one PGA of America official. Because his angle changed, the water did not matter, but the official also noted to Golf Digest that Spieth was not even in the water.

"The margin for casual water is different than for out of bounds," the official told Golf Digest. "If his foot is just hanging over the puddle, he has complete relief. I didn't see any ripples."

The PGA of America also released a statement on the matter.

"In this case, Jordan elected to play in a different direction of play based on Decision 20-2c/0.8. Jordan was entitled to either play the ball as it lay, even if his stance was still in the casual water or he could have elected to take relief again from the casual water under this different type of stroke that he then elected to play."

In other words: No penalty.