We're unlikely to see Martin wearing the Masters Green Jacket. What's interesting are the potential consequences for others. It's another area, like violence on the field, where sport has been shown by the judiciary that it's not outside the law. And that's got to be right. In America's litigious society it's hard to see why not.
Pros are famously adept at exploiting the rulebook on the course.
Jose Maria Olazabal would surely have done just that instead of hobbling his way round the European Tour with his own injury back in the nineties. After all, then no golfer has an advantage. Golf has precious few physical elements to it. Its close enough, as it is, to the no man's land between sport and game. But that's mere semantics more fundamental, traditional issues are at stake.