Tour pro on Thomas Detry's six-putt shocker: "I don't know why he's playing"
English tour pro Eddie Pepperell believes Belgium's Thomas Detry may be playing too much of a burdensome PGA Tour schedule after seeing his mad moment.
English tour pro Eddie Pepperell has urged Thomas Detry to take a break from the game after witnessing the Belgian's meltdown at the Cognizant Classic.
Pepperell made the comments about the 31-year-old PGA Tour pro in the latest edition of The Chipping Forecast.
He was referring Detry's horror moment where he took as many as six putts to get the ball in the hole on the sixth green at PGA National's Champion Course.
It was all the more frustrating as Detry had found the par-4 green in regulation.
Golf fans couldn't contain themselves as Detry went back-and-forth after he missed his initial six-footer for par.
What made the clip all the more perfect was his playing partner Stephen Jaeger's reaction.
Detry was also playing with Michael Kim and he later took to X to say: "I asked his caddie Lee what his score was on the next hole since I was keeping Thomas's score and Lee responds 'it was an 8… I think'".
Remind yourself of the sensational moment here:
The single greatest putting display in professional golf history pic.twitter.com/biutuTlocI
— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) March 1, 2024
And Pepperell reckons the Belgian might be playing too much of a burdensome schedule in 2024.
The Cognizant Classic was Detry's sixth PGA Tour event of 2024 and, overall, he has fared well.
Detry posted top-25 finishes at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and Farmers Insurance Open.
He also finished in the top five at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He has missed the cut on three occasions.
Pepperell explained: "I thought it was a good 45-second clip actually... a real journey through the mind of a golfer who, strangely enough, has been playing really, really well but for the last few weeks has finished last or thereabouts.
"I don't know why he's playing. He needs a week or two off, that is as clear to me watching that as anything.
"He is frazzled! Take a few weeks off, boy. You've done well, you don't need to be playing as often as you are.
"And when you do something like that, that suggests to me that a player has come to the end of his tether."
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