Zach Johnson has made the spectacular declare that he didn’t swear at Augusta patrons through the second spherical of the Masters regardless of video showing to seize the second.
Considered one of Friday’s greatest speaking factors was video of the second a livid Johnson putted out for a triple bogey on the iconic twelfth gap.
As some followers on the opposite facet of Rae’s Creek clapped the completion of the opening, Johnson regarded up and was clearly heard saying: “Oh, f**okay you.”
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Johnson — more and more turning into a determine of ridicule after final 12 months’s ‘boy’s membership’ controversy on the Ryder Cup — was requested in regards to the second after his spherical.
The 2007 Masters champion astonishingly denied it in a weird response.
“That I swore on the patrons? That’s laughable,” Johnson advised reporters. “That’s fully laughable.
“I can’t hear the patrons, primary. Quantity two, I simply made a triple bogey on the twelfth gap that evidently goes to make me miss the reduce, which on the time I knew was fairly delicate within the sense that I wanted to maintain making pars.”
That’s when Johnson all of a sudden pivoted, admitting that he might have stated one thing, nevertheless it was to himself.
“If I’ve stated something, which I’m not going to disclaim, particularly if it’s on digicam, one, I apologize, and two, it was totally directed in direction of myself totally as a result of I can’t hear something behind me,” he stated.
“Does that make sense?”
Truthful to say, the reason hasn’t washed with the golf world.
Barstool Sports activities’ Dan Rapaport stated he was surprised by Johnson’s response to disclaim.
“It’s fairly the technique,” he stated on TikTok.
“He’s wanting on this path, after which that path, and that’s when he says, ‘oh, f**okay you’. So does that appear to be he’s speaking to himself?
“I can’t imagine he simply went full denial and didn’t simply say, ‘yeah, I used to be annoyed within the second’.
“He additionally stated he wasn’t going to disclaim it if there was video … so what, you’re going to disclaim it if there wasn’t video?
“What’s happening with this man?”
Johnson has been below rising stress since final 12 months’s Ryder Cup, when his staff picks got here below the microscope following a heavy loss to Europe.
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Controversial omissions of in-form gamers, similar to Keegan Bradley, Cameron Younger and Lucas Glover, and the collection of identified mates to routinely certified gamers — similar to Sam Burns, Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth — raised suspicions of a ‘boy’s membership’ throughout the staff.
Johnson has been the goal of hecklers since, with one video of a feisty interplay with followers on the Phoenix Open in Scottsdale re-emerging on Saturday.
“Oh don’t ‘sir’ me. Any person stated it. I’m simply sick of it,” he could be heard saying. “Simply shut up.”
The type of a few of these captain’s picks on the Masters, when in comparison with a few of these he snubbed, has solely added to the strain.
Sam Burns, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas all missed the reduce, whereas Bryson DeChambeau has been in rivalry for the win, whereas Lucas Glover was inside the highest 15 on the time of writing.