Tag: Eddie Pepperell

LIV Golf member Richard Bland admits he was ‘under the influence’ when he started Twitter spat, and now his account is off

Bland admitted he was drinking when he sent the tweet, and Pepperell had already noted he hadn’t taken the comment personally.

After a weekend in which a pair of English golfers snapped at each other on Twitter, one admitted he was under the influence and “should have known better.” He then turned his account off.

It all started on Sunday after LIV Golf Adelaide in Australia as fans showered Chase Koepka with beer when he aced the par-3 12th for just the second hole-in-one in LIV’s short history.

DP World Tour player Eddie Pepperell responded to a comment on Twitter by saying the raucous scene was akin to similar experiences on the 16th hole at the WM Phoenix Open in Scottsdale.

“This has been happening at Scottsdale for years now, so not sure how much LIV is really changing things here,” wrote Pepperell, who has been known as an active member of Twitter.

Richard Bland, a LIV Golf member, responded with a shot at Pepperell’s tenure on the European tour.

“Ed.. tell me where on DP World there’s been a hole like this? Because in 22yrs of playing the tour I can’t think of any. But maybe your 15 minutes on tour you know different,” his tweet read.

That led Pepperell to this response:

On Monday, the two made up as Bland admitted he was drinking when he sent the tweet, and Pepperell had already noted he hadn’t taken the comment personally.

“Unfortunately I did have too many last Ed. I apologize for what I said. I should know better not to tweet under the influence,” Bland wrote.

As of Tuesday morning, Bland’s account was deactivated.

Bland finished 32nd at the LIV event in Australia and had just one top-10 finish during the circuit’s initial campaign, finishing fourth in Bangkok. His claim to fame is he won the 2021 British Masters at the age of 48 in his 478th start on the tour.

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Have a laugh on this Monday courtesy of the European Tour’s latest video, ‘Angry Golfers’

Have a laugh on this Monday courtesy of the European Tour’s latest video, “Angry Golfers.”

Tyrrell Hatton has been on a great run the last year.

The 29-year-old Englishman has won three times since hoisting the trophy at March’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, most-recently claiming last weekend’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and October’s BMW PGA Championship.

Maybe Hatton is just riding the momentum of re-signing his equipment deal with Ping. Or maybe he’s finally getting help.

Hatton, who jumped from No. 9 to No. 5 in the latest world golf ranking, admittedly wears his heart on his sleeve, which has produced some hilarious on-course moments over the years, like his club toss in disgust at the CJ Cup and when he used his putter as a rifle to shoot at – then give the finger to – a pond.

In a hilarious video posted by the European Tour last week, Hatton admitted to being an “angry golfer.”

In the video, Tommy Fleetwood hosts a group therapy session for some of the angriest golfers on the European Tour, featuring Hatton, Eddie Pepperell, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Henrik Stenson and Ian Poulter. Each player has a little fun made at their expense, with Hatton taking the most shots. Two-time major champion Martin Kaymer even makes an appearance.

Next time you’re on the course, just remember: “When you’re feeling glum, pop up your thumb.” It worked for Hatton.

U.S. Open: Winged Foot gets a thumbs up from players who missed the cut

There were no complaints from a trio of players who left Winged Foot after missing the U.S. Open cut.

MAMARONECK, N.Y. – There were no complaints from a trio of players who left Winged Foot after missing the U.S. Open cut.

They were actually quite complimentary on social media Saturday despite collecting the lion’s share of 1,383 bogeys, 179 doubles and 19 others. Most failed to capitalize when the famed West Course was vulnerable in the opening round and struggled mightily with the wind and the rough and the pins and the greens in the second round.

Eddie Pepperell checked out with a 14-over total of 154, but was ready to go again.

“Upon reflection, and despite playing like a right doughnut, I would do it all again at Winged Foot,” the 29-year-old Englishman tweeted. “It’s simply an awesome golf course. Can’t think of a course that tests you in so many ways. Thanks @USGA for humbling me at the same time as invigorating me.”

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The cut was 6-over, three strokes lower than it was in 2006 when the U.S. Open was last played at Winged Foot.

Receptive greens and welcoming pins in Round 1 accounted for the difference.

Phil Mickelson did not look comfortable for one minute at Winged Foot, not even on the driving range. He again took a scenic route carding rounds of 79 and 74, and was up early on Saturday hawking a line of coffee released this week.

“After being beaten up and battered by Winged Foot, it’s nice to find out @ForWellness doesn’t just help my mind and body, it comforts my ego and soothes my hurt soul,” Mickelson tweeted along with a bed-head photo.

To kill time on his flight home, Max Homa solicited questions and was promptly asked what non-golf activity equates to playing Winged Foot.

“Playing Winged Foot is like going for a run,” he tweeted after is 14-over performance. “Ur optimistic to start, ur almost immediately pissed off, there’s a lot of heavy breathing, the views are great, ur wondering why u did this to urself, there’s some self-hate involved, finishing is euphoric, ur gunna do it again.”

Mike Dougherty covers golf for The Journal News/lohud.com. He can be reached at mdougher@lohud.com or on Twitter @hoopsmbd and @lohudgolf.

Pro golfer Eddie Pepperell earns a strange DQ over scorecard snafu

The rules of golf are weird.

Weird disqualifications are becoming English golfer Eddie Pepperell’s signature.

Back in November, Pepperell was DQ’d from the Turkish Airlines Open after he hit so many balls in the water on a single hole that he ran out, and was unable to continue play.

On Thursday at the European Tour’s Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, Pepperell shot an even-par 71 in his first round – but was knocked out of the tournament after there was a series of errors on his scorecard.

Pepperell explained on Twitter that he correctly kept his score of 71 on his card – but there was a discrepancy with the scores his playing partner kept for him. Pepperell’s competitor had him down for a par on a hole he made a bogey, and a par on a hole where he made a birdie. The scores all still added up to 71 – but since the scores on each individual hole weren’t accurate, Pepperell would have been disqualified for signing an incorrect card.

Pepperell caught that mistake, however, and changed the scores his partner had written down. In the process of doing that, however, Pepperell changed a score on the wrong hole and signed his card, forcing officials to DQ him.

Pepperell wrote that he accepts that “the rules are the rules,” but noted that as he had the correct score himself, kicking him out of the tournament for an issue that started with his playing partner’s bookkeeping doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

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Eddie Pepperell DQ’d from Qatar Masters, explains how on Twitter

Eddie Pepperell was disqualified from Qatar Masters after signing an incorrect scorecard. He then explained what happened on Twitter.

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Eddie Pepperell certainly knows how to make a disqualification interesting.

The 29-year-old Englishman was DQ’d from the European Tour’s Qatar Masters on Thursday and this time, it wasn’t because he ran out of golf balls.

Pepperell was disqualified after the first round because he signed an incorrect scorecard. But it wasn’t that simple.

Pepperell explained the mishap on Twitter, writing his score of 71 was correct, but his partner put down a 5 on the par-4 11, when Pepperell actually double-bogeyed the hole. He said his partner also marked a 3 on the par-4 16, opposed to a 4.

Pepperell said he changed both errors, but made another mistake in the process. He accidentally changed the score on the par-4 17th, which he birdied, instead of the 16th.

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“Quite disappointing as I actually took the time to change the original error, only to make a costlier one myself,” Pepperell wrote. “I asked the referee if this had any bearing on my disqualification but it didn’t.

“The rules are the rules and I 100% accept that, but I can’t help feeling that this particular way of disqualification is a fair distance away from common sense, and that’s also disappointing. I enjoyed the course however and hopefully next time I’ll do a better job.”

Pepperell’s score of even-par 71 would have given him a share of 61st headed into the event’s second round.

This isn’t the first weird disqualification Pepperell has experienced. During last season’s Turkish Airlines Open, Pepperell was disqualified during the final round for running out of golf balls after the contents of his ball pocket spilled out into a pond beside the fourth green.

Nicolai Højgaard holds the first-round lead at the Qatar Masters by one shot at 7 under. Joost Uiten sits in second ahead of a six-way tie for third at 5 under.

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Eddie Pepperell: Premier Golf League a ‘pretty terrible idea’

Eddie Pepperell wrote his thoughts on the Premier Golf League Tuesday in a blog post.

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Perhaps the reason the Premier Golf League inspires such strong opinions among professional golfers is because it ushers in a common enemy.

That’s what Eddie Pepperell suggested Tuesday on his blog “Who says Golf is everything?” in a post titled, “A Common Enemy.”

Pepperell, 29, stated he thinks the Premier Golf League is a “pretty terrible idea” that would “rupture many of the traditions of golf.” However, he said the proposed league which could rival the PGA and European Tours does pose a much needed, unifying element: a threat.

“Golf, like sport in general, currently suffers from not having enough rivalries, or indeed any. … It’s irrational, yet commonplace,” Pepperell wrote. “It’s also natural, and we seemingly can’t get enough of it. What we need, is a War. Or a pandemic to bring us together. Or, if you’re the PGA Tour and the European Tour, we need the serious prospect of the Premier Golf League.”

Pepperell thinks the Premier Golf League is changing thinking around professional tours, for better or worse.

Referencing a previous blog post in which he wrote he was against the PGA and European Tours merging to create a World Tour, Pepperell said the prospect of the Premier Golf League makes the World Tour idea more preferable — to himself at least.

“Thinking conspiratorially for a second, I wonder if someone has plotted this to have the effect of creating a common enemy, as to make the chances of a World Tour more likely?” he wrote. “Thinking slightly more realistically, I doubt that’s the case and instead we just have an assortment of individuals, trying to see a gap in a market and exploit it with (currently) porous Saudi money and investment from a Japanese bank with a recent history of very poor investments. Either way, it’s worked in terms of changing the way I see something I previously disliked; a World Tour.”

More Pepperell’s complete entry can be read on his blog, “Who says Golf is everything?”

Pepperell, who last played at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic and finished T-11, wrote he was on his way to the Qatar Masters, despite his concerns of being quarantined abroad or unable to travel due to the coronavirus. The 29-year-old said he withdrew from the Oman Open “over fears of getting stuck abroad” but decided to travel to Qatar to help him qualify for the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play.

“It’s a risk I felt worth taking,” he wrote. “In preparation for a potential lockdown I did book myself into the Four Seasons mind, so if I do get locked down, don’t feel too sorry for me.”

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Eddie Pepperell takes lead at Dubai Desert Classic

After a second-round 67, Eddie Pepperell took the lead at Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

After shooting a second-round 67, Eddie Pepperell has taken the lead at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

Pepperell, who leads at 8 under through 36 holes at Emirates Golf Club in Dubai, sits one-shot ahead of Dean Burmester, Robert Karlsson and defending champion Bryson DeChambeau.

Ashun Wu and Romain Langasque sit T-5 at 6 under while four other golfers including Kurt Kitayama of the United States are T-7 at 5 under.

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Pepperell, who carded six birdies Friday, missed the cut in his last two events, the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the South African Open. He opened the European Tour’s 2020 season T-19 at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in November.

The 29-year-old Englishman finished the first round with a 69 and sat in a tie for third with 11 other golfers.

Pepperell tees off his third round alongside Karlsson Saturday afternoon.

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