Paul Goydos’ since deleted tweet.
@PaulGoydosPGA
Paul Goydos doesn’t like execs utilizing golf carts and he made certain everybody — particularly Jay Monahan — knew it Saturday evening.
In a tweet — which he later deleted — Goydos posted a photograph of a number of carts in a fairway forward of him. In the accompanying textual content he wrote that it was unfair for gamers to make use of carts in competitors on the PGA Tour Champions. He additionally took a shot at Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, for not doing one thing about it.
“I am now a a (sic) competitive disadvantage walking on the @ChampionsTour,” the tweet learn. “If the PGA Tour had a commissioner that had an ounce of leadership skills he would ban them( I’m fine with ADA exceptions). It’s a total clown show.”
Carts are allowed on the PGA Tour Champions, excluding a couple of larger occasions and the majors, however there are a lot of restrictions concerning their use. For occasion, gamers might not have their baggage on their cart and their caddie just isn’t allowed to drive the cart at any level throughout the spherical except specified by event officers.
Goydos, not one to draw back from his opinions all through his profession continued defending his place. He replied to a minimum of 32 tweets by way of Sunday morning.
In one reply, he defined how he has seen gamers in carts use it to drive forward and survey the touchdown space for his or her subsequent shot earlier than strolling to play their ball. The 2022 PGA Tour Champions Player Handbook states “When practical, carts should not be driven past your own ball or that of your playing partner, and should not be parked in close proximity to any ball in play.”
He additionally referenced a number of occasions the lawsuit in opposition to the PGA Tour by Casey Martin which allowed him to make use of a cart in competitors beneath the Americans With Disabilities Act. Goydos mentioned the Tour’s argument was that strolling was integral to the sport and he agrees with that viewpoint — though if utilizing a cart permits somebody with a incapacity to compete, he helps it.
Still, he claimed most gamers don’t want a cart to compete. The 58-year-old mentioned no gamers will skip subsequent week’s Regions Tradition, a significant on the over-50 circuit, as a result of gamers can’t take carts in senior majors.
Goydos additionally mentioned that despite the fact that he feels it might be advantageous to make use of a cart and he’s in a position to take action, he felt it might be hypocritical.
By Sunday morning, Goydos deleted the unique tweet, however the replies have been nonetheless there.
Goydos has two wins on the PGA Tour and 6 wins on the PGA Tour Champions, the final coming on the 2017 3M Championship. He entered the ultimate spherical of this week’s Mitsubishi Electric Classic tied for twenty first, 11 pictures off the lead.
