US PGA 2025 Quail Hollow

[Arthur Wedge]

Wasting your breath, people on here will argue that he must have had an emergency on all four days in order to skip the media meetings. Saint Rory can do no wrong.

They are not required to speak to the media

It’s his choice if he doesn’t want to speak to them

And considering that he prob would have had to just deal with the constant questions about his driver he prob thought he wouldn’t waste his time

Maybe it’s just a case of people desperate for things to be negative about after their declarations of “never winning another major” “never winning the Masters” “bottler” all turned out to be completely false

Or maybe it’s just the standard case of jealousy and people having this needs to want to knock down people who are successful

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Anybody chucking a club at a crowded event like the USPGA is an idiot. H&S would call it an unsafe act. Potential for injury.

Don’t think there is any doubt he is an idiot - along with a good number of players , same with those that don’t shout four when the ball is clearly going into crowds

 

[Orikoru]

They are not required to speak to the media

It’s his choice if he doesn’t want to speak to them

And considering that he prob would have had to just deal with the constant questions about his driver he prob thought he wouldn’t waste his time

Maybe it’s just a case of people desperate for things to be negative about after their declarations of “never winning another major” “never winning the Masters” “bottler” all turned out to be completely false

Or maybe it’s just the standard case of jealousy and people having this needs to want to knock down people who are successful

It's not required, but everyone else manages to do their bit. I repeat - Saint Rory can do no wrong of course.

 

[pokerjoke]

WC must have looked behind him before he teed off and knew no one was there because he never had time to look after his shot.
To me it’s dangerous and potentially harmful.
He apologised which is the right thing to do.
It needs to be nipped in the bud now before anyone does get hurt by anyone throwing clubs.

 

[pokerjoke]

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Have to admit I was surprised he skipped all press requirements.

Shame. Let himself down

I suspect he was too tempted by the woman asking the questions
Rory is a prat ,like a baby with a dummy.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

It's not required, but everyone else manages to do their bit. I repeat - Saint Rory can do no wrong of course.

Multiple players through the years have not bothered speaking to the media at times

He spoke before the event and people derided what he said - so he can’t win when some will always look to twist anything he says

This way there is no headlines for them to create

 

[wjemather]

Guess depends on definition of narrowly missing

The steward was stood to the side of the hoarding he hit - it’s not like the club whistled past him

https://twitter.com/x/status/1924222337777365230

The club didn't whistle past him but it did put a 6 inch hole in the hoarding about 5 feet from where he was stood.



Clark didn't need to release much later for it to be directly at him (arrow indicates direction of travel after release - much closer to the direction of the marshal than intended, I'm sure; club is clearly visible, as is the marshal).


Astonishing that you're still trivialising this and defending the indefensible this morning.

At some point it must feel like you've dug too deep a hole, but are you really that incapable of ever admitting you made a mistake?

 

[Voyager EMH]

The club hadn't done anything wrong.

He should have chucked himself, head-first, at the boards behind the tee.

Now, that would have been worth discussing.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

The club didn't whistle past him but it did put a 6 inch hole in the hoarding about 5 feet from where he was stood.

Astonishing that you're still trivialising this and defending the indefensible this morning.

At some point it must feel like you've dug too deep a hole, but are you really that incapable of ever admitting you made a mistake?

Think you maybe need to read properly

No one has defended his actions

Everyone has said what he did was wrong and poor

He has apologised , he will be imo sanctioned with a heavy fine and we move on

 

[Orikoru]

Don’t think there is any doubt he is an idiot - along with a good number of players , same with those that don’t shout four when the ball is clearly going into crowds

Why are you equating it with this? A golf ball going towards fans isn't an act of violence, it's just a slightly offline attempt at a golf shot. The fans should be watching, if they do get hit it's regrettable but unfortunate. Throwing a club at speed though is a reckless act of violence, he obviously didn't take time to check there wasn't anyone standing there, and it's not part and parcel of the sport - it's just reckless behaviour. There should be a serious punishment.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Why are you equating it with this? A golf ball going towards fans isn't an act of violence, it's just a slightly offline attempt at a golf shot. The fans should be watching, if they do get hit it's regrettable but unfortunate. Throwing a club at speed though is a reckless act of violence, he obviously didn't take time to check there wasn't anyone standing there, and it's not part and parcel of the sport - it's just reckless behaviour. There should be a serious punishment.

If you know your golf ball is going into a crowd you know that it’s got the potential to hurt someone

So the very basic minimum is to shout four and many professional golfers don’t shout four - imo they do that because there is a chance it will bounce of someone

Do you not think that’s very dangerous to not shout four ?

 

[clubchamp98]

Angry golfer's broken club strikes fan in head

Kevin Stadler slammed a club in anger during a Web.com event Friday, causing the club to break and fly into the head of a spectator, who needed six stitches to close the cut.

www.espn.com

Just to highlight that it’s happened before and the player wasn’t banned

That dosnt mean he should not have been!.

Far to soft on these incidents.

Try Google for golfers killed by clubs.

 

[Orikoru]

If you know your golf ball is going into a crowd you know that it’s got the potential to hurt someone

So the very basic minimum is to shout four and many professional golfers don’t shout four - imo they do that because there is a chance it will bounce of someone

Do you not think that’s very dangerous to not shout four ?

Of course they should shout fore, but even if he doesn't, someone else will, and the marshals are signalling as well. A wayward shot is part of the game though, it's not in the same ball park as launching a club behind you in anger. Are you suggesting Clark should have shouted fore before he chucked it and that would be alright?

 

[Swango1980]

It's not required, but everyone else manages to do their bit. I repeat - Saint Rory can do no wrong of course.

It's bizarre.

Those that don't like Rory get sick of the whole "Everyone is Rory this, Rory that, sick of it". They hate the Rory show, they want more limelight given to other golfers, especially other golfers who have done better. They say Rory has no charisma, and have no interest in what he has to say. Same with Tiger Woods, people moaning all the time that too much attention is given to Tiger.

And yet, when Rory doesn't give an interview after finishing 47th in a Major, many of the same people start moaning that they haven't heard from Rory.

It would be a paradox, but is can easily be explained. When Rory is doing well and being praised, these people just can't stand it and want the Rory show to end. But when Rory has done badly and failed at a tournament, these people want nothing more than to see his misery extended, and if he doesn't show that, they just use his failure to speak as a stick to smack him over the head with.

I don't think I have one in my life had any negative opinion about any golfer not giving an interview after finishing 47th in a Major. I frankly wouldn't care one bit.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Of course they should shout fore, but even if he doesn't, someone else will, and the marshals are signalling as well. A wayward shot is part of the game though, it's not in the same ball park as launching a club behind you in anger. Are you suggesting Clark should have shouted fore before he chucked it and that would be alright?

But they don’t shout fore and people get hit

Should golfers get punished if they don’t shout fore

 

[Orikoru]

It's bizarre.

Those that don't like Rory get sick of the whole "Everyone is Rory this, Rory that, sick of it". They hate the Rory show, they want more limelight given to other golfers, especially other golfers who have done better. They say Rory has no charisma, and have no interest in what he has to say. Same with Tiger Woods, people moaning all the time that too much attention is given to Tiger.

And yet, when Rory doesn't give an interview after finishing 47th in a Major, many of the same people start moaning that they haven't heard from Rory.

It would be a paradox, but is can easily be explained. When Rory is doing well and being praised, these people just can't stand it and want the Rory show to end. But when Rory has done badly and failed at a tournament, these people want nothing more than to see his misery extended, and if he doesn't show that, they just use his failure to speak as a stick to smack him over the head with.

I don't think I have one in my life had any negative opinion about any golfer not giving an interview after finishing 47th in a Major. I frankly wouldn't care one bit.

It's nothing to do with him finishing 47th, he declined interviews for the entire four days. I don't particularly need to hear what he has to say, but it's just yet another example of his petulance that people on here continue to deny, that's all. It falls on deaf ears with some continually, so we'll just leave it there. Until the next time.

 

[Orikoru]

But they don’t shout fore and people get hit

Should golfers get punished if they don’t shout fore

Stop trying to change the issue because you've realised you were talking out of your backside.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Stop trying to change the issue because you've realised you were talking out of your backside.

I think what’s very clear is you just cherry picked a single bit of longer post and taken it clearly out of context

 

[Orikoru]

I think what’s very clear is you just cherry picked a single bit of longer post and taken it clearly out of context

Have I?? When did I do that?

 

[Swango1980]

It's nothing to do with him finishing 47th, he declined interviews for the entire four days. I don't particularly need to hear what he has to say, but it's just yet another example of his petulance that people on here continue to deny, that's all. It falls on deaf ears with some continually, so we'll just leave it there. Until the next time.

You call it petulance, I don't. We live in a free society, and if he felt that he wanted to focus as much on his golf, and avoid certain interviews, so be it. He talks plenty to the media, as you know, so it isn't like it is essential he needs to speak every single time they click their fingers.

As you said, you don't need to hear what he says, I don't need to hear it, and I bet everyone else in here has allowed their lives to continue as normal despite not hearing what he had to say? So, what is the issue? Again, it is another example of people just loving to bash other people over the head with a stick on social media over absolutely nothing. People who love to judge a person's character extremely negatively, despite never meeting them, but hearing a few headline comments they've made in their 15+ years in the limelight. Then sensationalising everything else they do, or don't do thereafter.

I'm not particularly a fan of some golfers, like Koepka or Reed (albeit they may actually be decent people face to face, no idea). But I wouldn't care a jot if they didn't give a requested interview. I'm sure dozens of golfers are declining interviews at every tournament?