Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and his crew have been robbed throughout a stopover in London whereas heading to the primary leg of the PGA Tour playoffs after profitable a bronze medal on the Paris 2024 Olympics, Japanese media reported on Wednesday.
The previous Masters champion advised Golf Digest Japan that he had his pockets stolen and the passports and visas of his caddie Shota Hayato and coach Mikihito Kuromiya have been additionally taken.
World quantity 12 Matsuyama advised the web site that Hayato and Kuromiya have returned to Japan and are working to get their paperwork reissued.
The earliest they’ll be capable to journey to the USA will probably be for the August 29-September 1 season-ending Tour Championship.
“There’s an opportunity they’ll make it, however now we have to enter it pondering it’s near zero,” Matsuyama mentioned.
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Representatives for Matsuyama and the PGA Tour didn’t instantly reply to Reuters when requested to substantiate reviews of the theft.
Matsuyama secured Japan’s first Olympic medal in males’s golf in Paris.
Movies on-line confirmed Matsuyama warming up at TPC Southwind in Memphis, the place he’s scheduled to play the opening two rounds on Thursday and Friday.
The highest 50 finishers transfer on to the August 22-25 BMW Championship in Fort Rock, Colorado, from the place the highest 30 go on to the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Membership in Atlanta.