Matt Kuchar has apologised to everybody affected by his resolution to not full the ultimate gap of the Wyndham Championship on Sunday night.
Kuchar was the one participant within the discipline to return to Sedgefield Nation Membership on Monday after exercising his proper to not end the 72nd gap of the weather-affected match.
Needing a win to proceed his run as the one participant to achieve 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 bushes.
Play was suspended when the opposite two gamers within the closing group, Max Greyserman and Chad Ramey, had additionally teed off, giving all three the choice to finish the opening as daylight shortly pale.
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 match 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 reduction from a scoreboard earlier than hitting his second shot wanting the inexperienced, then hitting the pin together 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 price an extra £70,000. A bogey would have decreased 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 person needs to be that man, which I really feel I became, the one man that didn’t end. I can’t inform you what number of occasions I’ve been completed with a spherical (and) bummed out that we didn’t get to make the reduce as a result of someone didn’t end.
“I believe had I been within the fairway with a standard 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 match. So I mentioned, nicely, Max will cease, I’ll cease, sort of make it simple on him.
“Once more, it stinks to… no one needs to be that man that’s exhibiting up at the moment, one particular person, one gap. So apologies to the match, to all people that needed to come out.
“I do know the ramifications, I do know it stinks. Definitely I apologise to drive all people to return out right here.”
Requested if he was conscious of the unfavourable response to his resolution, 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.”
