{"id":584107,"date":"2026-05-14T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584107\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:15:08","slug":"us-pga-championship-2026-garrick-higgo-receives-bizarre-penalty-for-arriving-late-to-aronimink-tee-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584107\/","title":{"rendered":"US PGA Championship 2026: Garrick Higgo receives bizarre penalty for arriving late to Aronimink tee-time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa&#8217;s Garrick Higgo was denied a share of the early clubhouse lead at the US PGA Championship after receiving a rare two-shot penalty at the start of his first round &#8211; for arriving a minute late to the tee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Higgo, 27, carded a double-bogey six on the opening hole as a result, but recovered with four birdies in a solid round of one-under 69 at Aronimink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Higgo finished his round at about 12:45 local time, he would have been tied at the top of the leaderboard with fellow South African Aldrich Potgieter had he not been punished for his tardiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tournament officials said Higgo was &#8220;not within the area defined as the starting point at his starting time&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I always cut it fine and this morning was pretty cold,&#8221; Higgo, who was still on the practice putting green, told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I never want to get to the tee 10 minutes before and get cold when I have to hit a driver. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Usually I hit five putts before I go to the tee and went there thinking I had five minutes &#8211; but I obviously did not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hit one putt I thought I heard my name, my caddie was yelling at me and I ran down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s Garrick Higgo was denied a share of the early clubhouse lead at the US PGA Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-584107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}