{"id":680375,"date":"2026-05-19T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680375\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:09","slug":"pga-championship-2026-golf-news-garrick-higgo-tee-time-two-stroke-penalty-caddie-sacked-and-replaced-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/680375\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Championship 2026, golf news: Garrick Higgo tee time, two-stroke penalty, caddie sacked and replaced, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

South African golfer Garrick Higgo has split with his caddie following last week\u2019s embarassing tee-time blunder<\/a> during the PGA Championship at Aronimink.<\/p>\n

During the major\u2019s first round, Higgo arrived from an adjacent practice putting green for his 7.18am tee time at 7.19am, told by officials that he was late and would be penalised.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old didn\u2019t have his cell phone or watch as he ran over with putter in hand, and while meandering toward the tee, caddie Austin Gaugert was seen urging him to rush.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a surprise,\u201d Higgo later explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was late. My caddie was yelling at me to get to the tee. I knew it was probably going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIf you know me, then you know I am very casual and laid back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to be there 10 minutes early. I know that five minutes is fine. I thought I had time. I was obviously too casual.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Garrick Higgo of South Africa with his caddie.Source: AFP<\/p>\n

Higgo ultimately copped a two-stroke penalty and missed the cut by one shot, becoming the first player to be penalised for arriving late at the PGA Championship since David Lipsky in 2019.<\/p>\n

He was later seen having an animated discussion with officials in the scoring tent. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy caddie dropped my Trackman in the locker, and I went to the putting green thinking I still had five minutes,\u201d Higgo continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hit one putt and then heard my name being called. My caddie was yelling at me and I ran down and got a two-shot penalty.\u201d <\/p>\n

Former US golfer Kevin Kisner criticised Higgo on the Fore Play podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand how you can even risk it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust get over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, Higgo\u2019s agent to Golfweek<\/a>that Gaugert had been replaced by Nick Cavendish-Pell ahead of this week\u2019s CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Dallas. <\/p>\n

Cavendish-Pell previously caddied for the South African during his maiden PGA Tour title at the 2021 Palmetto Championship, while the three-time European Tour winner also triumphed at last year\u2019s Corales Puntacana Championship.<\/p>\n

\u2014 with AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South African golfer Garrick Higgo has split with his caddie following last week\u2019s embarassing tee-time blunder during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-680375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}