Garrick Higgo reportedly split with his caddie, a move that came after the South African was penalized two shots for being late to his opening-round tee time at the PGA Championship last week.<\/p>\n
Golfweek, citing Higgo’s agent, reported Monday that Austin Gaugert is no longer on the bag of Higgo, who instead will use Nick Cavendish-Pell at this week’s CJ Cup Byron Nelson.<\/p>\n
Higgo’s tardiness Thursday at the PGA became a much-talked-about storyline at the season’s second major championship.<\/p>\n
He was scheduled to tee off on No. 1 at Aronimink Golf Club at 7:18 a.m. ET, but was one minute late, video on the ESPN broadcast showed. As a result, he was penalized two shots on his opening hole, ultimately taking what would have been a 3-under 67 — and a share of the first-round lead — to a 69.<\/p>\n
Higgo said after the round that Gaugert was screaming at him to get to the tee box. The PGA of America said the 27-year-old was practicing on the putting green but was not within the area defined as the starting point of his tee time. The rules state a golfer must be on the tee box and ready to play at the assigned time.<\/p>\n
“If you know me, then you know I am very casual and laid back,” Higgo said. “I don’t know. I don’t want to be there 10 minutes early. I know that five minutes is fine. I thought I had time. I was obviously too casual, yeah.”<\/p>\n
The penalty ended up being extra costly for Higgo the following day, as he missed the cut by one shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garrick Higgo reportedly split with his caddie, a move that came after the South African was penalized two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-678750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}