Matt Kuchar has apologised to everybody affected by his determination to not full the ultimate gap of the Wyndham Championship on Sunday night.
Kuchar was the one participant within the subject to return to Sedgefield Nation Membership on Monday after exercising his proper to not end the 72nd gap of the weather-affected event.
Needing a win to proceed his run as the one participant to succeed in the FedEx Cup play-offs yearly since their inception in 2007, Kuchar was out of rivalry in a 10-way tie for twelfth when he hooked his tee shot on the 18th into the timber.
Play was suspended when the opposite two gamers within the last group, Max Greyserman and Chad Ramey, had additionally teed off, giving all three the choice to finish the outlet as daylight shortly light.
However whereas Ramey and Greyserman – who had surrendered a four-shot lead after 13 holes however might nonetheless catch England’s Aaron Rai with an eagle – opted to complete, Kuchar knowledgeable event officers he would mark his ball and return on Monday.
The 46-year-old American duly did so and resumed play at 8am native time, receiving line-of-sight aid from a scoreboard earlier than hitting his second shot in need of the inexperienced, then hitting the pin along with his pitch and tapping in for par.
The par ensured Kuchar earned round £105,000 in prize cash, whereas an unlikely birdie would have been value an extra £70,000. A bogey would have lowered his payday to £60,000.
Talking to a small group of reporters after ending on Monday, Kuchar mentioned: “Sorry that you just guys needed to come out this morning.
“No one needs to be that man, which I really feel I changed into, the one man that didn’t end. I can’t let you know what number of occasions I’ve been completed with a spherical (and) bummed out that we didn’t get to make the lower as a result of any individual didn’t end.
“I believe had I been within the fairway with a traditional shot, I most likely would have tried to complete, however I had simply seen Max four-putt the sixteenth gap. If there was daylight on that inexperienced, does he four-putt? I don’t know, I don’t know.
“I didn’t realise Aaron Rai made birdie on the final. I’m figuring no manner Max goes to complete out with an opportunity to win a event. So I mentioned, properly, Max will cease, I’ll cease, form of make it straightforward on him.
“Once more, it stinks to… no person needs to be that man that’s displaying up at this time, one individual, one gap. So apologies to the event, to all people that needed to come out.
“I do know the ramifications, I do know it stinks. Definitely I apologise to power all people to return out right here.”
Requested if he was conscious of the unfavourable response to his determination, Kuchar mentioned: “Fortunately I keep away from that stuff. I did get a name from my agent, mentioned ‘hey, you’re inflicting fairly a stir’, in order that was the little I heard.
“I’m grateful to not be part of the social media factor.”
