Was Matt Kuchar Right? | No Putts Given

Matt Kuchar pulled a ballsy move over the weekend - did you catch it? We have A LOT to cover in today's episode. We're watching some legendary golf unfold folks. Between Lydia Ko heading to the Hall of Fame - Scheffler continuing to dominate the podium and new equipment breaking boundaries....we're in for it! LET'S GET IT! Click MORE if you're looking for something specific ➡️

👋🏼 00:00 Welcome Back
🥇 01:26 Lydia Ko Qualifies for Hall of Fame
✅ 03:12 Scheffler For Player of the Year
🚶🏻 06:32 Should Kuchar Have Walked Away?
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🏆 33:05 Club Championship Flub

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[christopherlafreniere]

Thanks again for covering some LPGA players. I love the LPGA and Lydia is the Queen!

[davidprice]

His caddie's pay check was better for it. Maybe the PGA should prove their product. Rai took 2 mins on a 4 ft putt😢

[WesternGolfAlliance]

Let's be clear about the Kuchar situation. Yes, this unfortunately negatively impacted the volunteers, however SOMEONE needs to start calling out the PGA Tour for their absolute mismanagement of ... everything ... ranging from event scheduling, to on-course rules administration. This actually called into sharp relief everything the PGA Tour is screwing up. They schedule events in areas of the country during their most unstable weather seasons due to 'tradition'; They place obstructions for the benefit of advertisers and technology that then force nonsensical rulings; They fail to enforce pace-of-play rules; They create slow and protracted play due to nonsensical course setup; They allow their television broadcasts to devolve into unwatchable and protracted dog****.

Sorry, Chris, you're wrong. Matt Kuchar is the hero we need, creating a single microcosm that highlights everything the PGA Tour is screwing up ... or he would be highlighting it if you were focused on the issues and not the single unfortunate hardship for a handful of volunteers. We should be talking about ... pace of play enforcement, course setup failures, tournament scheduling in general, and weather mismanagement specifically.

[jackiwannapaint]

Matt has a real gift for calling attention to himself in the most unfavorable way possible

[briarmeadow]

I despise slow play. Perhaps Kuchar was making a statement that they wouldn't be playing in the dark if the officials had done their job of keeping up the pace of play during the round. How about we make this fiasco even longer and we all come back tomorrow because you (Officials) can't keep up the pace of play? Great idea.

[Sueezedtight]

A PGA rules instructor told his students that: "Golf is the only game where the proper interpretation of the rules will get you hated." ALL golfers take advantage of favourable rulings, all the time. Kuchar saw the opportunity and decided to take advantage of it. More power to him and that is why the rules are there.

[keithpanco]

Matt played behind two 6 1/2 hour rounds, and was expected to finish the last two holes in the dark to please the authorities. I think he was right to invoke his right to stop.

[Tom_Swift]

Consider this: If Aaron Rai doesn't play at a snails pace, Kuchar finishes long before darkness.

[AlabamaGolfer]

I don’t blame Kuchar one bit. Lots of people are talking about how slow Rai was playing. If that guy played at a more reasonable pace, Kuchar probably would’ve finished on the same day in conditions that were fair to him. Why play in harder conditions when your card, paycheck, and your caddie’s paycheck is on the line, especially when people ahead of you are playing at a snail’s pace?

[Golfzilla]

Concerning that ending bit about the club championship flub, something almost identical to this happened to me. i had just come off a birdie on the 14th hole (it was the first day of play), and our whole group strolled up to the 15th tee box. We've all played this course a million times so we knew where we were gong - the cart path basically takes you right to the tee box to hit your next shot. We were playing white tees (If you were in the championship flight on the final day, you'd have to play the blue tees which you actually have to always walk back to them and it's about 20-30 yards back). Anyway, I was pumped up so i jumped over there and teed off and hit a fantastic drive. The next guy in the group tees his ball up, and right before he addresses the ball he notices we were at the YELLOW TEES. What had happened was the superintendent had moved the yellow tees back to the normal white tees, and the white tees had been moved halfway back to the blue tees (the blue tees were the back tees, the yellow tees were the forward tees like most golf courses are set up)! I've played there 20 years and NEVER saw them do that before. I know it sounds idiotic, but the tee markers aren't big round colored balls here - they're basically small pieces of wood, and on the diagonal cut at the top of them is a small bit of paint in a 3"-4" circle identifying what they are. And they were aimed AWAY from us in the golf cart.

I really felt rotten about it for a while, at least until Jordan Spieth and his playing partner screwed up and played the wrong tees in a PGA tournament one weekend :)

In any case, lesson learned, it was my own fault for being careless and that's how i looked at it.

[anthonygrieco]

Don't know Kuchar, could be an ass. However, to be fair this should have not affected anyone's travel plans but Kuchar's. Finishing at night like that, the only people that would get out of there if possible is the scoreboard guys and the tv guys if they have an event the next week. Even then, it would be tough getting all that together in the dark. The bleachers, ropes, tents etc. would have been taken down over the next couple days (again, it's dark out). Out of town PGA officials and staff could have left. There is always some local PGA staff that supports the event. They could have handled a player finishing a hole. They didn't need volunteers for crowd control, tickets, parking etc., just close the course and have him finish the hole. Again, nobody was inconvenienced unless they chose to be.

[Golfzilla]

Chris, you're absolutely right to question that line-of-sight ruling. As a matter of fact, i think if there were NO line-of-sight rulings allowed in PGAT golf today, it just MIGHT work towards solving the distance problem. How many times have we seen long wayward drives blocked out because of grandstands or whatever that got put up by the TV crews for the tournament just basically let the golfer get out of jail scot free?

Having said that, i don't think i heard either of you mention the golfers having to finish in the dark. Not the first time it's happened, and the PGAT shouldn't make the final groups do it. It is a definite hinderance.

[Chip_in]

11:00 Pro par all day...and the next morning 🤣⛳

[benlemoi]

I can understand both sides of the argument with Kuchar. He could have just finished and saved everyone the time and aggravation, especially not being in contention(which he ultimately apologized for not doing). But I wasn’t there playing in the dark for a good amount of cash. So which is the right call 🤷 I just know I would have felt bad making everyone come back just for me but I’m not a pro golfer either 😂

[per_growth]

Never really a Kuchar fan - but how much was at stake if he finished par vs bogey? If it's sizeable, considering the extremely slow pace of play, he was w/in his rights to finish the next day - then people should cut him some slack.

[ryandelannoy]

I have to say guys, most likely won’t read this anyway. As Tony’s probably sticking a finger up his butt hole saying Mizuno, Mizuno, Mizuno, left dash, left dash, left dash.
I have to agree with Kuchar. Until the PGA starts penalizing for slow play, start penalizing the PGA. If I were Kutcher in my next tournament, I would play unbearablely slow until they penalize me.

[jackiwannapaint]

Someone needs get one of these horns they use to stop play and attend Matts next tournament and on the tee at 18 Matt steps up and in the middle of his backswing we fire off a blast on the horn Hilarious!

[ashdrewness]

I can almost guarantee no volunteers were impacted by the Kuchar move. No need for Marshals, Hospitality, etc. Most of the grounds crew and tournament staff were going to be there the next day anyways to clean up & manage the sponsor scramble tournaments. At most it was an hour or so delay for their usual activities.

[paulwilsdon]

Life thing!!
Do to others as you would like them to do for you.
Tell the guy he’s about to tee from the wrong teeing ground. I would expect that from my playing partners if it was me teeing up on the wrong tee.
If you don’t and you win by one, is that a win?

[davekeogh]

Pace of play on pga tour is 100% to blame. Yet pga tour does nothing about it