There are a lot of methods to seem like a clown whereas in the course of a heated match however laying your putter down after knocking in a two-foot putt is just about high of the listing.
You might chug a beer on the first tee, rip your high off, run bare across the inexperienced however the mock injustice of not being given a putt is pretty risible.
Bryson DeChambeau did it as early as the first gap in his fourball match with Tommy Fleetwood and Viktor Hovland and Tommy Fleetwood at Whistling Straits in 2021.
Justin Thomas has been responsible of it up to now and Tom Kim was this yr’s pantomime villain when he took umbrage at Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele’s lack of a ‘choose it up’ remark.
The People had been two up taking part in the par-3 seventh when Si Woo Kim, who would later spectacularly chip in on the penultimate gap, knocked it as much as a few ft. Shorter putts had been missed over the 4 days and Kim duly knocked it in.
Judging by the gang’s response he clearly then did one thing as he moved away from the outlet earlier than then returning to the outlet facet to lie his putter down earlier than strolling off shaking his head.
Tom Kim measuring a putt pic.twitter.com/FmlqafDtaf
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Two days earlier Kim, and his then companion Sungjae Im, had walked 60 yards to the ninth tee after holing a birdie putt whereas Scottie Scheffler was lining up his birdie putt.
This, to be honest, is much more lame however hardly ever occurs and wasn’t repeated, so we will put this down to simply some poor judgment.
The mendacity down of the putter charade is commonly seen and by no means seems good. Gimmes are there to purely pace up play which, given no one cares about this ingredient at a Presidents Cup, makes them a part of the pantomime.
Don’t give them and also you would possibly get just a few boos, do give them and commentators will drone on about some type of unbelievable thoughts video games the place you give a pair early after which make them gap out late within the match.
There’s an excellent story of Sergio Garcia from his novice days the place he would concede a 12-foot putt to his opponent for a par after which knock in his birdie putt from simply inside that size.
If you wish to really feel mentally crushed then this may be an excellent begin but it surely’s by no means that attention-grabbing in a staff matchplay occasion.
Cantlay and Schauffle would win the match on the 18th after Cantlay holed one more putt at nighttime. He saved his head down, this time with a cap on, bought on with the match and closed issues out in fashion.
Whether or not you consider in karma or not the staff who simply performed golf the correct manner ran out the winners.
If you’re within the staff room and also you’re watching a clip of one among your opponents bleating about not being given a putt how rather more incentive do you wish to take him down the next day?
All of us get that a part of Tom Kim’s appeal is his vitality however, for a lot of final week, it was working the fallacious manner.
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