PGA Tour put on full blast after 'cruel' social media post: 'Kick a man while he's down...'
'Doing him dirty with this post': golf fans hit out at the PGA Tour after their 'cruel' post of Wilson Furr missing the cut in his home event.
Golf fans have put the PGA Tour on full blast after they decided to post video content of Wilson Furr being unsuccessful in his bid to make the halfway cut in his home event at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
'Friday Night Drama', the PGA Tour stuck on its first graphic of Furr holding a wedge to his face.
The PGA Tour captioned the post: 'Jackson native Wilson Furr (#FedExCup No. 183) needed a birdie on 18 to make the cut on the number.'
There were then two more videos for fans to scroll through.
At this stage, fans were left thinking Furr probably went on to make a birdie to make the cut in his home tournament.
It would have been a nice story, right?
The second video post stuck up by the PGA Tour then sees Furr send his approach shot from the rough into the greenside bunker.
At this stage, you are now thinking he most definitely holed out from sand to make the cut.
I mean, what a story that would be, right?!
However, Furr did not.
In fact his bunker shot was not even close to going in.
We then see Furr smash his club against the side of the bunker in disappointment just to further rub salt into the wounds.
Furr's ball ended up some 10 feet past the hole and he even missed the par putt to finish at 4-under par.
That saw him miss the cut by two shots and further dented his hopes of keeping his PGA Tour card for 2025.
Golf fans were left baffled by the point of this PGA Tour post, at least judging by their comments on Instagram.
Scroll down for the PGA Tour's Instagram post, and click on the right arrow or swipe to view the videos.
Then scroll further down this page to view some irate PGA Tour fan comments...
'Pure definition of kicking a man while he's down by posting this,' wrote one annoyed fan.
'Yeah this is brutal, what are we doing here with this?!' commented another.
One wrote: 'Damn why did y'all have to post this.'
'Doing him dirty with this post,' commented another.
Another wrote: 'Showing him smashing the club is a violation.'
One fan said: 'What a weird post.'
'This is so cruel from the PGA Tour,' wrote one fan.
Furr has made just five cuts in 19 tournaments on the PGA Tour in 2024.
He was coming off his best finish of the season with a T13 at the Procore Championship in Napa, California last month.
At the top of the board at the Sanderson Farms , Beau Hossler leads the way as he goes in search of a long-awaited first PGA Tour title.
The American takes a one-shot lead over a resurgent Daniel Berger.
A host of other players are tucked in behind including Keith Mitchell and England's David Skinns.
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