Tour pro’s club-snapping incident leads to WD at Valspar

As soon as the delayed second spherical completed up Saturday morning on the Valspar Championship, the gamers who made the minimize had been in a position to start their third rounds on time. But it surely was a Tour professional’s club-snapping incident throughout Spherical 1 that was nonetheless drawing consideration at Innisbrook.

The participant in query is 34-year-old Justin Lower. Aside from one massive vivid spot within the type of a T3 on the Mexico Open in February, Decrease’s performances have been missing in 2024, placing him in seventy fifth place within the FedEx Cup standings.

The story didn’t get higher for the Akron, Ohio, native on the Valspar this week. He struggled throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, signing for a six-over 77 when it was all stated and carried out.

However the temper could have been even worse than you’d suppose within the scoring tent. That’s due to what occurred on Decrease’s closing gap, the par-4 ninth on the Copperhead Course.

Beginning his closing gap at 4 over on the day, Decrease wanted one thing good to occur to offer himself an opportunity for a run on the minimize on Friday. However his drive flared left and ended up in a fairway bunker. From there, Decrease hit his second right into a front-right greenside bunker.

That’s went issues went haywire. His third shot from the sand reportedly caught the lip of the bunker, after which his frustration boiled over.

As seen in a video shared by Golf Channel on X and since deleted, Decrease stepped on his wedge as he was leaving the bunker and snapped it in two.

Ultimately, Decrease holed out for a double-bogey 6 to finish his day. But it surely seems it wasn’t simply the top of his day.

Following the spherical, and along with his probabilities of making the minimize on Friday slim, Decrease withdrew from the match altogether, because the Tour introduced Friday morning.

In 37 starts last season, Decrease made 19 cuts and missed 18. He collected 7 top-25 finishes, amongst them three prime 10s, ending 103rd within the FedEx Cup standings.

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