As Joost Luiten describes it, it was simply “a kind of weeks when nothing went my approach.”
He’s not kidding.
Not solely did the 37-year-old Dutchman shoot 3 over to lose by 18 pictures and beat simply two gamers on the DP World Tour’s 50-man season-ending championship in Dubai, however Luiten additionally needed to play briefly with simply 11 golf equipment after getting three golf equipment caught in a tree.
Sure, three golf equipment. The incident occurred on the ninth tee field. Frustrations had been boiling over after Luiten bogeyed the eight gap after which adopted that up by yanking a drive into the left tough. He took the errant shot out on his driver.
“Misplaced it and threw my driver, and it acquired caught up a tree,” Luiten stated. “That sums up my week properly. I attempted to get it out by throwing another golf equipment at it, and [two] different golf equipment acquired caught up the tree, so I couldn’t get them out.”
Video posted by DP World Tour exhibits Luiten attempting all the pieces to extract his golf equipment, which gave the impression to be about 20 toes up within the branches. When the 2 different golf equipment didn’t work, Luiten tries the scoring commonplace, then a big department, just a few rocks and at one level even tries to leap. Arms outstretched, he didn’t come shut.
After a number of minutes, Luiten kicks his bag in anger, shouting a bleeped-out phrase.
Lastly, he gave up, strolling away and taking part in the opening with simply 11 golf equipment. A volunteer then retrieved the caught golf equipment and gave them to Luiten on the tenth tee field. Luiten’s spouse, Melanie-Jane, who’s eight months pregnant, helped return the golf equipment to her husband, in accordance with the DP World Tour.
“I simply went on and performed the remainder of the opening and one of many volunteers acquired them out,” Luiten stated. “In any other case, it will have been a humorous spherical to complete with 11 golf equipment.”
It’s nonetheless a shaggy dog story to inform.
