By theOCDPublished: 31 August 2009 7:39 AM EDTPosted in: golf
It sucks when somebody else costs you money. It sucks when that amount of money is six figures. That happened this weekend to Jim Furyk at The Barclays when his caddie left an extra club in the bag. The error resulted in four strokes added to Furyk’s total and a drop from 6th place overall to tied for 15th. The lower standing meant that Furyk received $131,250 less in prize money.
JERSEY CITY, N.J.—Jim Furyk was penalized four strokes in the third round of The Barclays when he and caddie Mike “Fluff” Cowan left an extra club in the bag, a mistake that ended up costing Furyk $131,250 and 188 FedEx Cup points.
Furyk discovered the 15th club while preparing to play a shot near the second green Saturday and had to take two penalty strokes for each hole, turning his opening pars into double bogeys. He finished with a 70 in the rainy morning round, then shot a 69 on Sunday to tie for 15th at 3 under — six strokes behind winner Heath Slocum.
Without the penalty strokes, Furyk would have tied for sixth. He dropped from 16th to 18th in the FedEx Cup points race, finishing the event with 1,458.
The extra club was a 60-degree wedge with extra bounce, something Furyk thought he might need on shots into the grain from the many runoff areas around the greens. He decided to go with his usual low-bounce model with a sharp leading edge, but the other club was inad
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