There’s plenty of ways a weekend can go wrong. House work. Yard work. Work work. There’s flat tyres, nasty colds, crippling hangovers and, of course, wasting three hours of your Sunday watching 18 losers blow a large fourth-quarter lead on national TV. It’s a minefield out there – a veritable banana peel slip ’n slide for the exhausted put-upons of earth who ask for nothing more than 48 hours of non-misery a week.
For many, that reprieve is found on the golf course, bonding with friends and connecting with Mother Nature. But even that can go horribly wrong, as this hapless Canadian Open qualifier found out this past eekend, carding 16 double-bogeys (16!!) enroute to a comically brutal 121.
Today in a Canadian Open Q (there is regional Q's) a guy fired a 121.
Lets guess how he made the par on 15. I'll start. I say made a 20-YARD putt, 10 yards of which was rough,
and it slammed the pin and went in. pic.twitter.com/A5SBpVmd4B— Monday Q Info (@acaseofthegolf1) May 30, 2023
Listen, we’re not here to kick someone while they’re down. The golf gods have already exacted their pound of flesh (and then some). But let’s not sugarcoat it: this poor sap had no business being out there. This was a regional qualifier for a PGA Tour event, not some annual boys weekend. Maybe their mother complimented them too much. Maybe they showed up to the wrong place on the wrong day. Maybe it was just a fantasy football punishment. Tough to say, but at least they made a single par.
That won’t be enough to salvage the weekend, but it’s something.
