Wes Bryan penalized 4 strokes (!!) for having 15 golf equipment in his bag throughout qualifier, laughs it off like a champ | Golf Information and Tour Info

It is one of many best guidelines to not break in golf – the 14-club rule. All you must do earlier than starting play is rely them up, and if in case you have one too many, you’re taking it out and run it again to the automotive or the locker room. But nonetheless, even on the highest ranges of aggressive golf, errors are made, and so they can show expensive.

Simply ask Wesley Bryan, who, regardless of nonetheless having partial standing on the PGA Tour because of his 2017 RBC Heritage win, discovered himself on the Sanderson Farms Monday qualifier at Deerfield GC in Mississippi this week. Sadly, Bryan didn’t qualify, doubtless as a result of he was hit with a four-stroke penalty early in his spherical for having 15 golf equipment. Someway, an additional, rogue 7 iron made its method into Bryan’s bag. In the event you do the mathematics, this penalty will need to have occurred on the third tee, which means he was penalized two strokes per holes performed for the infraction. 

“You may go add 4 to my rating boys,” Bryan might be heard saying within the clip beneath:

Not surprisingly, he dealt with this extraordinarily effectively, which is on-brand for Bryan. Additionally, it is the Sanderson Farms Monday qualifier. This wasn’t precisely an Ian Woosnam within the ultimate spherical of the 2001 Open Championship state of affairs.  

Wes’ brother, George, hilariously chimed in on Twitter, saying “fireplace the caddie!” The caddie, Matt Akins, was really enjoying within the Monday qualifier himself however withdrew on the tenth gap and got here out to caddie for Wes:

Nothing like cohesion. Good to see they’ll snigger this one off.