Furyk Gaffe Costs Him $130k at The Barclays

From time to time everyone makes mistakes.  Happens to the best of us.  Hopefully our mistakes don’t end up costing us $131,250 like they did Jim Furyk.  As a rule, golfers are allowed 14 clubs in their bag during tournament play, a rule that Furyk and his caddy Fluff Cowan seemed to have forgotten at The Barclays.  The club in question was a 60-degree wedge with extra bounce, a club he thought might be needed, but chose instead to go with his usual low bounce wedge.  Because of his bag’s rain hood, both he and Cowan forgot to remove the …read more