Following his missed cut at the PGA Championship, where he was penalized two shots for being late to his first-round tee time, Garrick Higgo has parted ways with his caddie.<\/p>\n
Higgo and Austin Gaugert are no longer working together, Golfweek reported after confirming with Higgo\u2019s agent. Higgo will have Nick Cavendish-Pell, who has previously worked for him, on the bag at this week\u2019s CJ Cup Byron Nelson in McKinney, Texas.<\/p>\n
The split comes days after Higgo received a two-shot penalty for his slight tardiness to Thursday\u2019s 7:18 a.m. starting time. Gaugert did not discuss the matter with reporters after Higgo\u2019s opening 1-under 69, but he could be seen on video telling his boss to hurry up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was there on time, but the rule is, if you\u2019re one second late, you\u2019re late,\u201d said Higgo, who followed with a Friday 76 to miss the cut by one.<\/p>\n
Obviously, if he\u2019d been on time Thursday, he\u2019d have played the weekend. It\u2019s unclear what role that situation played in the decision as well as who made the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following his missed cut at the PGA Championship, where he was penalized two shots for being late to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594686","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\/594686","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=594686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}