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This is what happens when you heckle Billy Horschel
Heckling on the golf course is becoming more and more frequent these days, but perhaps the next golf fan who attempts to get on the wrong side of Billy Horschel will think twice after the American responded angrily to a rowdy spectator at last week’s Zurich Classic.
The incident took place on the par-3 17th during the second round, as Billy Horschel played his tee shot. After Horschel had struck his shot, the spectator yelled “Get in the water!”, before Horschel responded angrily, saying “Hey, get the f**k out of here.”
(language warning, obviously)
Don’t yell stupid things at Billy Horschel. #PGA @GrTWilliams @ben_bridgers pic.twitter.com/AWq2G1mxpK
— Trent McGee (@McGeeOnSports) April 26, 2019
Horschel took to social media after his round to apologize for losing his cool, publishing this tweet.
Apologize for the knee jerk reaction on 17 tee. ????????????
Other than that, it was a good day. Nothing special from @ScottPiercyPGA today. Just good solid play. Special stuff hopefully this weekend. @Zurich_Classic #iloveNOLA
— Billy Horschel (@BillyHo_Golf) April 26, 2019
Although, not everyone believed that the apology was necessary, with Twitter savant, Eddie Pepperell, leaping to Horschel’s defense, as well as suggesting how he should handle similar situations in the future.
Rather you took a knee to that jerks face personally. Definitely don’t need to apologise.
— Eddie Pepperell (@PepperellEddie) April 27, 2019
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‘You’re a f*****g traffic cone!’ – Brooks Koepka heckles Aaron Ekblad at Florida Panthers game
Brooks Koepka is preparing to play in this week’s LIV event in Orlando. While in Florida, the four-time major champion attended a Florida Panthers game.
At the game, Koepka was seen taunting Aaron Ekblad, who was the first overall pick in the draft in 2014, with a traffic cone.
Brooks can be seen in the video yelling, “Ekblad you suck” as well as calling him a “traffic cone” with the prop in hand.
Is that Brooks Koepka calling Ekblad a fucking traffic cone from the stands in Florida??
?: IG/floridapanthersfp pic.twitter.com/LqolbAuYYt
— Missin Curfew (@MissinCurfew) March 26, 2023
So far this season, Koepka has finished 31st at LIV Mayakoba and 29th at LIV Tucson. He’ll be teeing it up at The Masters next week in search of his 5th major championship.
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‘Never mind the Masters’ – Gary Player explains why he ranks the Masters dead last of all the majors
In an interview with Sportsmail, Gary Player spoke about which major championship he believes is the best among them. The 87-year-old won nine major championships, including the Masters three times and The Open Championship three times.
“But never mind the Masters, the Open is by far the greatest tournament on the planet.”
Interestingly, Player ranked the Masters fourth of the four majors.
“I rate the Open at one, the US Open two, PGA three and Augusta four,’ he adds. Four marvelous tournaments.”
When asked why he ranked the Masters after the other three, Player said it was because the others have been around longer.
“It’s the youngest of the majors. The others are steeped in tradition and history, and they still have to catch up. Nothing comes to the top without time.”
Speaking of The Masters, Player also spoke about Rory McIlroy’s quest for the career grand slam, of which he’s still one green jacket short. Player believes McIlroy will win and needs to do so sooner rather than later to cement his spot amongst the greatest players of all time.
‘He’s got the best swing in the world by a mile,’ Player says. ‘He’s won four majors but none since 2014. I think he will win the Masters because the course is made for him. I think if he does that, he’ll go down as one of the greats, but that’s something he has to do.
“I’ve always said my judgment of superstars is they have to win six majors. People these days say anyone who wins is a superstar. No. It’s not easily done, but I believe Rory can.”
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At one stage in his career, it looked as if Tiger Woods becoming the record major holder was a formality, but for whatever factors that never materialised.
In an interview with Sportsmail, Gary Player spoke about Tiger Woods and his quest to break Jack Nicklaus’s major championship record, and has his own view on why Tiger never surpassed Jack’s record.
Player, who won nine major championships himself, said that he believes Ben Hogan was the “greatest” golfer he’d ever seen, but Tiger Woods was the most talented.
‘The greatest I ever saw was Ben Hogan,’ he says. ‘He went to war for five years and then had a terrible car accident, so never played in 30 majors. Nobody had a streak like he had (winning his nine majors in the space of 16 starts). If I was a young boy today, I’d watch his swing from 1953 every day.”
‘Tiger Woods was the most talented golfer the planet has ever seen but he made a few bad decisions, which we all do.”
“Having lessons when he won the US Open by 15 shots was inconceivable — if he never went for a lesson, he would have won 20 majors minimum and he would have beat Nicklaus’s record.”
Player is referencing the 2000 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, which Woods won by 15 shots. Just two years later, Tiger completely renovated his golf swing, which in retrospect looks as if it may have been a mistake.
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John Lang
Jun 7, 2019 at 10:33 pm
Horschel, and most of the blueblood snowflakes on tour, wouldn’t last a second in any other sport. No balls. Imagine them playing baseball in Philly?
Barry
May 20, 2019 at 4:31 pm
but these are just standard US fans these days. What is it with you guys and the need to have your voices heard? The stuff they were shouting as well in the PGA was just cringeworthy, and reinforced our views of American golf fans. Boorish, childish, crass, drunk. It’s why the US players love playing in the Open Championship. They get to play in front of a bit of class for a change.
HappyDuffer
May 18, 2019 at 11:53 am
Just more childish behavior from PGA players. If you want your fans to behave better, perhaps you should try setting a better example of how to handle things calmly like an adult and a gentleman.
GD
May 18, 2019 at 3:48 pm
Really? you’re blaming Billy Horschel for an adult spectator not knowing how to behave? Are we just that mindless in your eyes that because a player says a bad word in anger, that we in turn think its ok to act like a self control-less child? It’s the fault of the players that grown men just cant help themselves and scream mashed potatoes the second a player makes impact? How much more personal responsibility to we need to remove from adults in our society?
JP
May 14, 2019 at 4:41 pm
Next time send Gianni the Enforcer in to handle hecklers.
OhioBricker
May 14, 2019 at 12:00 pm
There isn’t a whinier douchebag on the PGA Tour than Billy Horschel. As much as I can’t stand him (he’s already blocked me on Twitter) I still hate people who yell anything after a golf shot more than anything else in all of sports.
Gatorhater
May 12, 2019 at 7:33 pm
Billy wears jorts.
James
May 10, 2019 at 1:58 pm
So many snowflakes on Tour can’t tolerate a little heckle. Billy and Eddie, STFU and entertain me.
jgpl001
May 11, 2019 at 2:19 pm
Can’t handle a little heckle?
Since when was heckling and drunken loudmouth behavior a part of golf?
Rich
May 18, 2019 at 11:10 pm
Snowflake fans can’t handle a little backlash for their bad behavior.
Grug-Brain Golf Fan
May 10, 2019 at 12:43 pm
GRUG MAKE COMMENT ON BILLY’S SHOT. GRUG THINK GRUG FUNNY. BILLY NOT FIND GRUG FUNNY. [SCRATCHES HEAD]
Dyson Bochambeau
May 9, 2019 at 9:24 am
Biwwy gets vewee veweee mad if you make him angwhee
jgpl001
May 6, 2019 at 5:30 pm
He should have dragged him over the ropes and thrown him into the water
There needs to be a zero tolerance policy with these idiots – chuck them out, fine them $50K and ban them from any Golf event for life
When are the PGA Tour going to wake up and take action ???
James T
May 11, 2019 at 5:53 pm
… sayin, “Oh, I thought you said to get you in the water.”
Sergio
Apr 29, 2019 at 5:49 pm
Billy H., you’ve gained in me a fan for life! Billy H. was much too restrained in his remark. He should not have only said “get the F*** out of here; he would have been well within his manly rights to to tell that punk that he is a moron, a disgrace to the good sportsmanship and gentlemanly nature of the game of golf, and doesn’t belong within a mile of a golf course! Security should have escorted the miscreant out immediately and he should have been banned from PGA tour events for life! The entire shout out stupidities culture that is beginning to take over golf events should not be tolerated. It’s getting so bad I don’t even like watching anymore. The only tournament that is watchable is the Masters and The British Open Championship. The PGA is out of control and so is the US Open. I think the PGA Tour should re-think it’s anything goes policy towards louts and miscreants shouting out idiocies. Is it so awful to have people behave like the do at Augusta. The cheers are thunderous but you rarely hear any stupidity. That’s the way it should be. This is golf not football.
A. Commoner
Apr 29, 2019 at 4:51 pm
What happens is that you are treated to a garbage mouth shout back.
jason
Apr 29, 2019 at 3:18 pm
i’ve seen comments regarding heckling from fans and how it doesn’t seem to be problem in other sports and golfers need to be less uptight…
there is a huge difference that separates golf from baseball, football, etc.
golf is an individual sport. when you are yelling at a player, you are rooting against the individual. not to mention the golf ‘arena’ is typically quiet, where any comment is easily heard. If you’re heckling the cubs RF, you’re likely doing so because you are rooting against the cubs, rather just doing so because you have something against that player. when you heckle a golfer, it comes across as rude and an attack on that player.
overall heckling is useless and classless. hecklers in any sport are the bottom feeders, but in golf they take the low to a whole new level
Brian
May 15, 2019 at 8:20 pm
How is rooting against an individual any different than rooting against a group of individuals? In a team sport, you’re rooting for an individual to drop a fly ball or brick a free throw. It’s elementally the same as rooting for a golfer to dunk his ball in the drink.