During the Barracuda Championship, the controversial American hit his ball onto the 11th hole green while a group of players were puttingt.
american golfer Grayson Murray again starred in a controversial incident during the celebration of the Barracuda Championship, a PGA Tour tournament that is taking place in Tahoe (USA), coinciding with the celebration of the legendary 150th anniversary of the Open Championship in Scotland.
During the course of the second round, on the 11th hole, a par 4 of around 300 metres, the Spanish group Santiago Tarrio he was putting in when Murray deliberately shot onto the green, bouncing the ball two feet from the players. “He shot, he never warned and he did not apologize, the ball bounced half a meter from all of us,” explains Tarrio to the portal Handicap54.
“At that, I called the referee and told him that this man should not be playing and that he should be disqualified immediately. The referee told me that he could not and I told him that I wanted to speak with the tournament director, to whom I explained the incident and they agreed. to penalize him”. Neither Tarrio nor Murray made the tournament cut, the Galician player was very upset with the experience: “I left because I didn’t want to know anything more, what he did has no justification”.
historical polemic
The incident is nothing more than the umpteenth chapter of the most controversial player on the PGA Tour. In the last tournament played before this week, the Barbasol Championship, he already left the course after hitting the tee shot on hole 7 of his first round. After signing two double bogeys and a bogey In six holes, his tee shot at 7 went off target and without giving notice to his teammates or the referees, he directly left the course. Weeks earlier, at the US Open, some footage of him during the third round throwing his putter through the air or breaking one of his irons they went viral. Far from apologizing, the American gloried in his social networks about his gestures.
Despite his 28 years, Murray’s history is extensive. The player who has a victory on the PGA Tour under his belt admitted in the past his problems with alcohol, also pointing out that the PGA Tour never gave him the necessary help: “The PGA Tour did not force me to drink but it never gave me help. “. In Hawaii in 2021, during the Sony Open dispute, an incident in a bar resulted in a fine of $20,000. Their confrontation in networks with Kevin Na. Murray recently closed his social profiles where, in his long history of nonsense, the controversial player had even published racist or sexist comments.
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