PGA Tour star launches club into lake at The Players Championship in furious outburst

Adam Hadwin endured a nightmare finish to his opening round at the Players Championship, hitting his approach at the 18th into the water, and his club soon followed

PGA Tour star Adam Hadwin let out a furious outburst on the final hole of his opening round at the Players Championship on Thursday, launching his club into a lake.

After an up-and-down front nine, Hadwin found a few frame taking after the turn, making three birdies in seven gaps to take off him at level-par with two gaps to play. He at that point found himself on the famous 17th tee, and like numerous some time recently him, Hadwin missed the green brief, sinking his tee shot into the water.

A punishment shot at that point taken after some time recently he went on to a twofold intruder, fixing his difficult work on the back nine. Shockingly for the Canadian, his inconveniences with the Sawgrass water dangers were distant from over.

His tee shot at the ultimate gap of the day about taken after the same destiny, but fortunately his ball snatched within the left-hand-side unpleasant, to guarantee it wrapped up fair some feet absent from the danger. Having gotten the break in spite of the fact that, Hadwin fizzled to capitalise as his moment shot was over-hooked, rolling off the green and into the water.

Less than inspired with his botch, the PGA Visit star selected to require it out on his golf club, throwing it profound into the water some time recently trundling up to the green. A drop green-side taken after, some time recently he overseen to urge up and down to constrain the harm to a intruder, finishing the opening circular three-over-par.

Disciplines for club tossing on the PGA Visit remains to some degree of a dark range, and it is known in the event that Hadwin will confront endorsing from the powers that be for his activities. One man who has been rebuffed for club tossing within the past on the PGA Visit is four-time major winner Rory McIlroy.

McIlroy vented his dissatisfactions within the same way as Hadwin at the WGC-Cadillac Championship in 2015, propelling a three press into a water risk after miss-executing his shot. “I fair let dissatisfaction get the way better of me,” McIlroy said at the time.

“It was heat of the minute and on the off chance that it had been any other club I likely wouldn’t have but I didn’t require a three-iron for the rest of the circular so I thought, why not? Looking back at it, that wasn’t one of my proudest moments.”

It was afterward uncovered that McIlroy was given a £20,000 ($25k) fine. Luckily for McIlroy this was afterward decreased to £4,000 ($5k), after the European star issued an expression of remorse for his club-throwing tricks on live TV within the repercussions. Hadwin will be trusting he can elude a comparable discipline at TPC Sawgrass, while moreover finding a few frame in circular two, with the Canadian requiring an impressive showing on Friday to create it to the end of the week.