After carding a 7-over 43 on his opening 9 Tuesday morning at West Lancashire, Sam Horsfield determined his possibilities of qualifying for The Open have been wrecked. So, Horsfield, a member of LIV Golf’s Majesticks GC, did what gamers have typically performed in his state of affairs and walked off the course.
The one problem is Horsfield, per the R&A, didn’t notify an official of his withdrawal and was subsequently handed a disqualification.
Semantics, certain, although the 28-year-old Englishman definitely earned himself fairly just a few headlines, together with one from a British outlet that learn, “LIV golfer walks out of Open ultimate qualifying after horror present.”
Horsfield took problem with the protection and posted an evidence of his untimely exit to his Instagram account. As the previous College of Florida standout from Manchester wrote, he didn’t land at London’s Heathrow airport from final weekend’s LIV Dallas occasion till round 4 p.m. native time and didn’t get to mattress at his lodging close to the course till practically 11 p.m. Then a hearth alarm pressured him exterior at 1 a.m., and from there, he struggled to fall again asleep till a few half-hour earlier than his 6 a.m. alarm, which he slept by way of.
“Luckily, my caddie woke me up,” Horsfield added. “I felt utterly dizzy and out of all of it day. Don’t take heed to the propaganda on the market towards LIV gamers by a few of these pages. Hope this clears issues up.”
Horsfield, who has only one top-10 end in 9 LIV begins this 12 months, will compete in LIV Andalucia subsequent week in Spain.
