The raucous twelfth gap in Adelaide nearly claimed a sufferer when Australian Lucas Herbert’s caddie was hit by a flying water bottle after urging the group to bathe him because the second spherical of the LIV Adelaide occasion ended.
Nick Pugh dropped to his knees after the errant throw from a spectator within the stands on the “Watering Gap” hit him within the again as he tried to place the flag again in after Herbert closed his spherical with a birdie.
Empty plastic cups littered the tee field as Herbert and his enjoying companions, the ultimate group to play the quick par three which has been marketed as the last word get together gap and is surrounded from tee to inexperienced by grandstands, performed their pictures.
After making his last putt to conclude a bounce-back spherical of seven-under 65, Herbert turned to the packed stands and thrust his arms out, urging followers to bathe him.
Pugh did the identical, however after turning his again on the group a water bottle struck him, leaving him reeling earlier than the caddie and all gamers walked off.
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Whereas Herbert mentioned post-round he was initially “anxious” no injury was achieved on the gap which exploded on the 2023 occasion when Chase Koepka nailed a hole-in-one.
The incident was a uncommon, and inadvertent lowlight on the outlet which gamers have embraced with preselected walk-on music for them to play their pictures to.
Even chief Brendan Steele mentioned the expertise of the outlet was memorable for all the best causes.
“Watering Gap was good,” he mentioned.
“I had simply made a bogey on 11 and I used to be capable of step in there and I hit it like three toes at the moment, in order that was improbable. I liked it.”