After Tiger Woods’ retirement in the middle of the second round of the Genesis Invitational, the championship that marked the American’s official return to the PGA Tour, Another golf star is out of the definition at the end of that day, but for an unusual reason: Jordan Spieth, former world number 1 and winner of three Majors, you signed your card wrong after a round of 73 strokes and was disqualified by the organization.
The Riviera tournament does not win for disappointment. Just a few hours after the Californian’s sudden abandonment “due to illness”, as reported by the circuit’s regulations officer, another surprise weight loss was announced. In fact, Spieth had had a great first round of 66 (-5), with six birdies, before getting complicated in the game in the second round, where he made four birdies, four bogeys and a double bogey on the last hole. In any case, despite the collapse, with 139 (-3) he had made the cut.
But the problem came when he returned to the club and presented his card. Spieth made the mistake on the par-3 4th hole. There he suffered one of his bogeys, but on his card he had written a 3, which did not coincide with his performance. These types of errors are rare, but from time to time they continue to appear and leave players, in this case like the Texan, without the possibility of advancing in the tournament, which this time has a prize pool of 20 million dollars .
A big Friday hit from Spieth
This is the first weekend of competition Spieth has missed since last year’s Scottish Open. But it is the first time that he has been disqualified in 263 tournaments that he has played on the PGA Tour. The 30-year-old American revealed the situation on his X account (former Twitter) accepting the failure. “Today I signed the wrong card and was disqualified, after thinking I went through all the procedures to make sure it was correct. “Rules are rules and I take full responsibility,” he wrote, lamenting and accepting the consequence of a moment he had never gone through.
Spieth, who won an NCAA title at Riviera, said he loves that course as much as any other on the PGA Tour and “It hurts not to play on the weekend.” Jordan was three shots off the lead heading into the second round on Friday until he lost three shots when top-ranked Patrick Cantlay, playing in his group, began to pull away.
On the other hand, in the contest in which the Chaco native did advance Emiliano Grillo, Some more details of Woods’ retirement were known. His early exit after starting the 7th hole this time was due to strong flu symptoms and was not related to an injury to his body. Therefore, while an ambulance was waiting at the door of the club, he spent the next two hours receiving intravenous fluids before leaving Riviera.
“It’s nothing physical. His back is fine,” had anticipated Rob McNamara, a former member of the association and vice president of TGR Ventures. “It was all due to a medical illness, dehydration, and the symptoms are reversing since they gave him intravenous medication.”
For this Saturday, after noon in Argentina, the first golfers are scheduled to tee off. The last to start the day will do so four hours later.
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