Ryan McCormick could have taken issues a step too far, but it surely helped him keep quiet.
The new-headed skilled golfer taped his mouth to “shut himself up” for his total spherical on Friday on the Membership Automotive Championship in Savannah, Georgia to place a cease to his on-course tantrums.
“Been having not-so-fun occasions this 12 months on the golf course,” McCormick stated in a video with the Korn Ferry Tour. “Fairly indignant and mad. So I figured I’ve tried numerous issues, and I simply figured I’d shut myself up. So I put tape over my mouth.
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“I imply at this level, I’ve tried about every thing. I’ve learn numerous books. I’ve talked to individuals. Simply too indignant on the golf course so I’ve run out of concepts, and I believed concerning the tape factor a few weeks ago. So, simply sadly got here all the way down to that at present. I hoped perhaps that it might assist me. Can’t say that it did or didn’t. It definitely makes you breathe. I felt like Bane, like Batman, muzzle myself.
“I imply, I’m not like proud. I don’t need to create an expertise for my enjoying companions that’s not truthful. And, you realize, it’s not truthful to me both or different individuals. Having a troublesome time, and that was my resolution at present.”
To speak together with his caddie for the day, McCormick stated he wrote down the numbers and simply “level and ask for a learn.”
Nonetheless, McCormick’s technique couldn’t maintain him within the match, as he completed 1-over par, which was a shot higher than his spherical on Thursday however nonetheless fell 4 photographs again from the reduce line.
The 33-year-old American was formally with the PGA Tour for all of 2024 however was ultimately relegated to the Korn Ferry in latest months after a No. 161 rank within the FedEx Cup standings.
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