PGA Tour participant Patton Kizzire threw one among golf’s most astonishing tantrums earlier than withdrawing from the Valspar Championship throughout the opening spherical.
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Kizzire, who has gained 3 times on the PGA Tour since turning skilled in 2008, missed a five-foot par putt on the par 3 fifteenth – his sixth gap of the day – and proceeded besides his putter excessive into the sky and throughout the inexperienced.
The commentators then joked that he was auditioning for an NFL profession, saying his putter kick was the size of a area purpose.
The unimaginable blow-up was extra extreme than the loud swearing or a Blissful Gilmore-esque putter throw sometimes unleashed by annoyed professionals.
The putter was utterly bent when he picked it up, leaving the 39-year-old to faucet in for bogey with a wedge.
Kizzire missed six cuts in a row coming into the match, and ended up withdrawing two holes later, at three-over par, with a again damage, based on the PGA Tour.
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It was a moist and wild day in Florida, which made low scores arduous to return by for the afternoon teams particularly as Jacob Bridgeman, Keith Mitchell, Stephan Jaegar, Ricky Castillo and Sami Valimaki share the lead at four-under par.
Mitchell was the 54-hole chief at this match twelve months in the past, however fell away with a remaining spherical 77 after beginning the day with a two shot lead.
He dug up reminiscences of that disappointing end with back-to-back bogeys to conclude his opening spherical, however admitted post-round that the psychological scars are ever current.
“I nonetheless give it some thought,” he stated of final yr’s remaining spherical. “It’s nonetheless undoubtedly at the back of my thoughts and I would like it to remain there, hopefully for the remainder of my profession to only encourage me to recollect what it looks like once you let these type of nerves get in your method.
“A spherical like right this moment looks like the other of that.”
World No.3 Xander Schauffele is the very best ranked participant within the area and he began with a one-under par opening spherical, whereas it was a troublesome begin for the Australian contingent.
None of Aaron Baddeley (+1), Cam Davis (+3), Karl Vilips (+3), or Adam Scott (+3) managed to shoot even par or higher, they usually might want to flip issues round shortly within the second spherical to make the lower.