PGA Tour pro calls complete bulls*** on Matt Kuchar's comments about him
PGA Tour pro Max Greyserman has his say on Matt Kuchar's 'strange' comments about him at the Wyndham Championship earlier this month.
PGA Tour pro Max Greyserman admits Matt Kuchar's comments about 'trying to set an example' to him by refusing to finish off his final round at the Wyndham Championship earlier this month were 'strange'.
Greyserman, 29, made his feelings be known about Kuchar, 46, in a sit-down interview with Barstool Sports' Dan Rapaport.
Scroll down the page for the interview.
Greyserman threw away a golden opportunity to win his first PGA Tour title at Sedgefield Country Club in North Carolina on Sunday August 11.
He held a four-shot lead after holing out for eagle on the par-4 13th in the final round.
But he handed it all back with a disastrous quadruple-bogey eight on the par-4 14th after sending his tee shot OB.
Despite a birdie at the par-5 15th, with darkness setting in fast, Greyserman proceeded to four-jab from 40 feet - taking three putts from just three feet - for a double-bogey five.
England's Aaron Rai then birdied the par-4 18th in the group ahead of him to run out a two-shot victory to record his own maiden PGA Tour title.
While that was all dramatic enough, Greyserman's playing partner Kuchar caused complete mayhem thereafter by marking his ball in the left rough while heading down the 18th hole, before informing his playing partners and officials that he was going to come back to finish on Monday.
Kuchar was slammed by fans for his decision.
Even Tour pros couldn't understand it.
Greyserman and the third member of the three-ball Chad Ramey elected to finish off in darkness on Sunday and get out of there.
Kuchar then told the media after walking off the course on Sunday night that his controversial decision was made because he was "trying to set an example for Max."
The PGA Tour veteran added: "We were so far past when we should’ve stopped playing. We saw what Max did on hole 16 (four-putting for a double bogey) – they should’ve blown the horn there.
"I feel bad, the poor kid should’ve won this tournament. By me not playing, it may show Max he has an important shot to hit."
Kuchar, a nine-time winner on the PGA Tour with just shy of $60m in career earnings, came back on Monday morning and immediately took TIO relief as a leaderboard was allegedly in the line of his shot towards the pin.
That in itself led to social media chaos.
He went on to record a par to finish T12.
Max Greyserman baffled by Matt Kuchar's comments about him
When pressed to give his take on Kuchar's comments in an interview with Barstool Sports' Rapaport ahead of the BMW Championship this week, Greyserman admits he was totally baffled by what came out of Kuchar's mouth.
Watch the interview below...
Rapaport said to Greyserman:
'Matt picked up his ball and came back and finished in the morning, and he said that he was trying to send a message to you as a veteran and you're a rookie. Was that something you were at all aware of at the time?'
Greyserman replied:
'No, not at alll, he didn't say anything to me. To be honest, I'm not really sure why he said that in his post-round press conference. On 17, I was one shot back. I par 17, he [Kuchar] makes a great birdie on 17. I think he's T12 at that moment. We go to 18 tee, and it's obviously very dark already. So we walk up to the tee on 18 and we can't see down the hill. It seems like he's playing fast, and what you can do when it's getting dark is you want to tee off, you want to go and want to finish. It looked like he was just trying to get the tee in the ground and hit quickly because he wanted to finish right? There was nobody telling us there were people in the fairway. There's people in the fairway at the time. That wasn't on purpose. But he did quick hit it and pulled it left. Then everyone else tees off and we go down there. He motions over an official, an official comes up and says 'at this moment we would blow the horn but we're not going to blow the horn because there's only one group, two groups left on the course'. Everyone knows that if you want to stop now, you can stop. We all went along our way down the fairway and I saw Aaron Rai made birdie [on the 18th green] and so at that point I was two shots away. I'm like 'okay, I don't even need to come back in the morning'. I can try to hole the shot but I can't see anything it doesn't matter right? I'm like 'alright, let's just finish'. I hit my shot, then look over at Kuchar and he's in the trees and he just marked his ball, and he never said really anything. We just keep going and he's like 'yeah I'm going to come back in the morning'. I don't really know why, he never said anything to me. Not sure why he said that in the media. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I think he need TIO relief, and benefit of the doubt, it was maybe going to take him a lot of time, which is fine for him. But to come out and say that he was trying to do something in service to me or something like that, I thought that was pretty strange.'
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