15 Times Golfers Got BANNED For Going Too Far

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15 Times Golfers Got BANNED For Going Too Far

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from players blatantly disrespecting the rules to pros getting caught cheating on the course these are 15 times golfers got banned for going too far and first we start with a ban that didn’t come from a broken rule or an oncourse meltdown but from a battle much bigger than that the war between live golf and the rest of the golf world and caught right in the middle Sergio Garcia the 2017 Masters champion shocked fans in 2022 when he jumped ship and joined Live Golf the paycheck massive the consequences even bigger by making the move Garcia violated his DP World Tour membership obligations something the tour didn’t take lightly he refused to pay the fines missed mandatory events and basically burned every bridge on his way out the result he was banned from competing in DP World Tour events and declared ineligible for the RDER Cup but in 2024 the script flipped garcia reapplied for membership and came crawling back with a check he paid over $1 million in fines and fees just to get reinstated and even then he’ll still have to serve out suspensions before he’s allowed to tee it up again in 2025 now he’s chasing a shot at his 11th Ryder Cup appearance but make no mistake he’s not walking back in he’s got to earn it and after getting banned and fined like that let’s just say that Rder Cup locker room might feel a little colder than usual at number 14 we’ve got a moment that is one of the most infamous suspensions in golf history a moment when the PGA Tour had to draw the line with one of its most unpredictable stars in November 1993 during the second round of the Capalua International in Hawaii John Daly was having a rough day after starting the round at evenpar he encountered difficulties including three double bogeies on the 11th hole following a missed birdie putt Daly picked up his ball and failed to complete the hole he then proceeded to tee off on the 12th hole an action that led to his immediate disqualification from the tournament but the consequences didn’t stop there pga Tour Commissioner Dean Bean had seen enough he handed Daly a full suspension from all tour related events for the rest of the year and left the door open for 1994 even more Daly was ordered to seek professional counseling because at that point this wasn’t just about breaking rules it was about a player clearly losing control and this wasn’t Dy’s first meltdown that year at the Keer Open he got disqualified for throwing his scorecard into the scoring tent after a brutal final round then at the Southern Open in October he walked off mid round without informing his playing partners as Beaman stated Jon now knows emphatically he can’t quit you can’t go out there and walk off the golf course and just like that Daly wasn’t just penalized he was banned a rough year for a guy with a rough edge and golf’s rulebook finally caught up to him coming in at number 13 you don’t usually expect a Mast’s champion to get banned in the middle of a tournament especially not for something so bizarre and unexpected as this one the round had barely started when officials pulled Matsuyama aside the issue his three wood specifically a suspicious white substance on the club face it looked like a bit of correction fluid something harmless but in the eyes of the rules it was a problem turns out that white paint was applied for alignment purposes by his own equipment rep no less but there was too much of it according to the PGA Tour’s chief referee the club face had become nonconforming meaning it could potentially affect ball performance that’s a violation of rule 4.103 no warning no slap on the wrist if you use a non-conforming club during play even once you’re out and just like that Matsuyama was disqualified one of the cleanest players on tour banned from a tournament over a club that probably gave him zero advantage the irony he only hit one shot with it his opening T-shot officials said the call was clear but for fans it felt like golf’s version of getting a red card for wearing the wrong shoelaces hideki didn’t argue he took the DQ with class but still banned for a bit of white paint that might go down as one of the most polite scandals in golf history at number 12 we’ve got a ban so ridiculous you’d think it came from a parody rule book but no it was real and it knocked Rory Sabatini out of the tournament faster than a shank off the tea it’s the opening round of the 2021 RSM Classic sabatini is rolling five birdies in his last six holes sitting at four under looking sharp but as he wraps up his round someone notices something on his club not a performance enhancer not a tech device just a tiny reflective sticker that’s right a sticker it’s the kind players use during practice to track club head speed with launch monitors totally harmless unless you forget to take it off and Rory did he used that fairway wood in competition and that made the club non-conforming under rule 4.1 the punishment not a slap on the wrist not a warning he was banned from the tournament instantly his entire round was wiped out his score erased all because of a tiny sticker that no one even noticed until after he’d finished playing sabatini owned it he reported it himself but let’s be honest he didn’t get beat by the course he got beat by adhesive for number 11 we’re going back to a time when golf wasn’t just buttoned up polos and polite applause because Dave Hill he brought chaos to the fairways and the PGA tour brought the hammer down more than once it all started in 1963 at the Frank Sinatra Open hill was having a rough day on the greens and instead of grinding through it like most pros he snapped literally he broke his putter clean over his knee on national TV right in front of the cameras but the PGA didn’t laugh no they slapped him with a five tournament suspension for conduct unbecoming a professional golfer and this was just the opening act fast forward to 1971 at the Colonial National Invitation Hill got disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard why because just moments earlier he had thrown a ball out of a bunker in frustration not exactly subtle a week later he showed up at the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic only to be told he owed a $500 fine for that little sand trap tantrum hill paid it but then he flipped the script and filed a $1 million antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour claiming they were treating him unfairly the tour’s response slap him with a one-year probation so Hill upped the lawsuit to $3 million eventually the whole mess was settled out of court and his probation was lifted but by then the damage was done coming in at number 10 one of the most emotional divisive and headline grabbing bands in modern golf Haley Davidson wasn’t just another name trying to make it on tour she was on the verge of making history in 2023 she was climbing through Q school carding impressive rounds and inching closer to becoming the first transgender woman to earn full LPGA tour status it was a story bigger than scorecards one that had the golf world watching every swing but then the rule book changed in early 2024 the LPGA USGAA and RNA introduced a major update starting in 2025 players must either be female at birth or have completed their transition before the onset of male puberty to be eligible for women’s competition no exceptions no gray area and with that change Haley Davidson was effectively banned but here comes the crazy part of it all the decision wasn’t made quietly it came after growing pressure from inside and outside the sport former LPGA pro Amy Olsen went public with her frustration writing on social media “These women have worked too hard and too long to have to stand by and watch a man compete for and take their spot.” Golfer Olivia Schmidt who had actually competed against Davidson posted a video titled Tea Time: Keep Women’s Golf Female where she voiced her concerns and pushed for immediate policy changes to protect what she called the integrity of the women’s game turns out breaking barriers is fine just not the ones in the LPGA rule book next up number nine some players get banned for losing their temper others for cheating the system but Nasa Hatka she got banned for a miracle that turned out to be too good to be true it’s the opening round of the 2024 Shopright LPGA Classic hatayoka is on a tear six under tied for third and playing some of her best golf season then comes the ninth hole her final of the day she goes for the green and two and sends the ball deep into the fescue thick wild unplayable stuff what followed looked like a miracle a group of people including a cameraman scrambled into the rough desperately trying to locate the ball after a frantic search they found it hatoka took an unplayable saved par signed for a 65 and walked off with a smile but the next day her name was gone here’s what really happened the search had taken longer than the 3minut limit allowed by rule 18.2A that meant the ball was considered lost by rule she should have gone back and replayed the shot instead she played from the wrong spot and because she didn’t correct it before leaving the scoring area she was disqualified under rule 14.7 no warning no penalty strokes just banned from the tournament a brilliant round erased over a few extra seconds in golf it doesn’t matter how good you are if the clock runs out so do you and now we get to this number eight every golfer has made a mistake on the course but at the 2024 Corales Puntaana Championship Ben Crane made one that got him banned and the worst part he didn’t even know it at the time crane had just birdied the seventh hole things were looking solid he was finding rhythm looking sharp doing what a fivetime PGA Tour winner is supposed to do but then came the eighth and a moment that turned his entire round inside out he hit the wrong ball simple as that walked up to it gave it a rip kept moving problem is it wasn’t his it belonged to his playing partner David Lipsky and instead of fixing the mistake right then and there Crane made it worse he went to the ninth T and hit his next shot that was it instant disqualification game over no warning no redo just done it was a shocking exit especially for a guy who’s been around forever and while Cranes had his name in headlines before usually for playing slower than traffic on a Monday morning this one it was a full-on mental blunder caught in real time he didn’t throw a club he didn’t argue he just hit the wrong ball and got himself banned for it which brings us to number seven before he was a major champion before he became world number one before the Millions the Green Jackets and the Hall of Fame there was just a young VJ Singh grinding it out on the Asian tour chasing a dream but then everything changed his entire career was hanging by a thread caught in a scandal so shocking it would nearly end his journey before it even began vj got banned this wasn’t a slow fade out or a quiet suspension it was a career-threatening hammer drop that stopped him in his tracks the accusation one of golf’s deadliest sins scorecard tampering sing was battling to make the cut and the pressure was on according to tournament officials he marked his score as one under par when he had actually shot one over a twoshot swing a difference between cashing a check or packing your bags singh denied it said he didn’t cheat but the Asian tour wasn’t convinced no appeal no second chance just a flatout ban in the blink of an eye VJ Singh went from chasing his dream to being shut out of the very tour he was trying to build a career on and the craziest part even after racking up over $70 million in earnings and becoming one of the greatest golfers of his era this one moment from the 80s kept following him around like a bunker you just can’t escape now number six most bands in golf come from outbursts controversies or off-c course scandals but in this case it started with a small almost unnoticeable gesture something that slipped past everyone on the course except the cameras in October 2013 during the BMW Masters in Shanghai Simon Dyson was lining up a putt when he casually used his ball to press something down right in his putting line no one on the course noticed not the players not the officials but later that day phone calls started coming in viewers watching the broadcast had spotted the move and reported it at the time repairing anything on the line of a putt especially a spike mark was against the rules dyson was given a two-shot penalty but then things got worse he submitted his scorecard without including the penalty which led to an automatic disqualification for signing an incorrect card the European tour didn’t leave it there they launched a full disciplinary investigation and ruled that Dyson had committed a serious breach of conduct he was fined £30,000 and handed a suspended two-month ban at number five we’ve got a moment so brutal so absurd it barely sounds real a player dominating the field five strokes clear of the competition and then getting banned before he could even tee it up on Sunday the year was 2000 patrick Harington was on fire at the Benson and Hedges International Open after three rounds he wasn’t just in the mix he was leading by five strokes he was steamrolling the field heading into Sunday with a win practically in his pocket and then gone not a blown lead not a final round collapse not even a rules dispute on the course nope he got disqualified over a missing signature yes seriously turns out after the first round Harrington had turned in a scorecard with two signatures but neither of them were his somewhere in the post round routine something slipped and by the time tournament staff retrieved the scorecards to put them on display they spotted the issue his name wasn’t on it according to rule 6-6B that’s an automatic disqualification padre didn’t argue he took full responsibility but that didn’t make it sting any less he was literally banned from finishing a tournament he was dominating because of a clerical error from 3 days earlier in golf you can eagle five holes and hit every fairway but forget your own autograph that’s game over coming in at number four now this one sounds like a joke but it’s not back in 1949 one of the most dominant golfers on the planet suddenly vanished from the PGA Tour no suspension no cheating scandal just gone the name Bobby Lockach a South African legend who rolled into America and made himself right at home by absolutely destroying the competition he won 11 of his first 59 starts and finished in the top three more than half the time fans loved him the leaderboard not so much and then without warning Lock was banned the official reason he didn’t show up for a few tournaments and exhibitions he had committed to events like the Western Open and the Inesse Forball fair enough if you ignore the part where other players had skipped events without being exiled from the tour but here’s where it gets shady behind the scenes whispers started flying players were frustrated lock was too good too consistent too unbeatable even 1948 Mast’s champ Claude Harmon said it outright lock was simply too good they had to ban him that’s right this might be the only case in golf history where winning too much got you kicked out the ban was lifted 2 years later in 1951 but Lockach never came back he stayed in Europe and South Africa racked up even more wins and let the PGA Tour deal with its bruised ego all right on to the next one here we’re looking at an unbelievable moment that stunned the golf world a teenage phenom center stage at her first pro event only to be suddenly banned before she could collect a single dollar it was 2005 at the Samsung World Championship and Michelle just 16 years old was making headlines as a phenom ready to take over the golf world but what should have been a historic moment quickly spiraled into a nightmare it all happened on the seventh hole in the third round michelle’s ball landed in a bush forcing her to take an unplayable drop she made a solid recovery chipping to 15 ft and saving par everything seemed fine until Sports Illustrated’s Michael Bamberger noticed something strange he didn’t say anything immediately instead after the round he measured the drop distance himself and later questioned Michelle about it when she explained her triangle thing for ensuring she wasn’t closer to the hole Bamberger grew more suspicious the next day after Michelle had finished tied for fourth and was set to cash her first pro paycheck of $53,000 LPGA officials stepped in after reme-measuring the spot they found her drop had been about a foot closer to the hole than it should have been a clear rule violation and the consequence immediate disqualification for signing an incorrect scorecard just like that her first pro payday vanished whether it was an honest mistake or something more one thing was clear michelle’s debut wasn’t making headlines for the reasons she had hoped sliding into our top three which brings us to what many call the biggest cheating scandal in women’s golf history and one that got a top LPGA star band the year was 1972 jane Bllelock was the LPGA’s top money winner dominating the tour but behind the scenes chaos a group of players accused her of improving her lies and improperly marking her ball on the green and this wasn’t just locker room gossip 27 players signed a sworn affidavit against her it all came to a head at the Bluegrass Invitational after the second round Bllelock was disqualified and fined $500 shortly after the LPGA handed down a full one-year suspension her season earnings which totaled nearly $50,000 were frozen and just like that one of the biggest stars on the LPGA tour was banned but here comes the twist there was no video no photos no hard proof just the testimony of her peers bllelock denied everything and took the LPGA to court eventually winning a partial legal victory but the damage to her reputation was already done she wasn’t just banned from competition she was banned from the very community she’d climbed to the top of and when 27 players turn against you that’s not just a suspension that’s exile moving to number two we rewind to 1987 in the San Diego Open at Tory Pines craig Stadler aka the Walrus was tied for second place after 72 holes just four strokes behind the winner George Burns but as he walked off the 18th green a PGA Tour official approached him with shocking news during the third round Stadler had hit his T-shot on the 14th hole under a tree to take his next shot he needed to kneel down so he placed a towel on the wet ground to keep his pants dry what seemed like a reasonable move turned out to be a violation of rule 13-3 which prohibits building a stance for a shot someone had reported the violation to the PGA Tour after seeing it on TV and after reviewing the footage officials determined that Stadler had broken the rule since he hadn’t assessed the required two-stroke penalty before signing his scorecard he was disqualified from the tournament the disqualification cost Stadler more than $37,000 in prize money and a second place finish making it one of the most talked about rules and fractions in golf and finally the big number one here we’ve got a moment that didn’t just shake up the leaderboard it split the entire sport in two in 2022 a new power entered the golf world live golf backed by Saudi money and offering jaw-dropping signing bonuses and guaranteed prize money it didn’t just get attention it came for the PGA Tour’s biggest names and some of them jumped phil Mickelson was the first domino one of the game’s most iconic figures a six-time major winner and Rder Cup legend gone then came Dustin Johnson former world number one and two-time major champ brooks Kupka followed bryson Desambo Patrick Reed Sergio Garcia household names all gone in the blink of an eye the PGA Tour responded fast and hard every player who teed it up in a live event without permission was immediately banned no appeals no grace period they were stripped of their PGA Tour memberships removed from events and frozen out of the FedEx Cup and President’s Cup commissioner Jay Monahan called it a matter of loyalty the players many stayed silent while others hinted they wanted the freedom to choose what followed were lawsuits media storms and endless press conferences where the phrase grow the game lost all meaning for fans it was surreal legends of the tour suddenly banned overnight golf wasn’t just about fairways and greens it was about contracts courtrooms and controversy and just like that the PGA Tour didn’t just lose players it banned an era oh and now that you’re still with us we have another great golf video for you to watch right in the middle of the screen