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Mark Hubbard DQ’d after he ‘knowingly added a 15th club’ and used it at Cadence Bank Houston Open

This is something you don’t see every day.

HOUSTON – Now, this is something you definitely don’t see every day.

Mark Hubbard was disqualified after finishing his second round of the 2022 Cadence Bank Houston Open at Memorial Park Golf Course on Friday after violating Rule 4.1c.

What did Hubbard do, exactly?

“Hubbard knowingly added a 15th club at the turn and used the club several times without declaring it out of play,” per the PGA Tour.

The rules of golf state there can be only 14 clubs in a player’s bag during a round.

It is unclear what club Hubbard added to his bag. Hubbard, who shot 75-74 (9 over) in the first two rounds, was going to miss the cut, his third straight.

He finished tied for fifth at the Sanderson Farms Championship earlier this year.

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PGA Tour golfer thought he hit a miserable shot… and then ended up with a hole-in-one

Golf, man.

Golf is just the dumbest game ever. But it’s also beautiful and I love it and I want to play it every darn day.

You know what I’m talking about if you’ve played the dumb game. It rules. It’s beautiful. It’s fun. It’s maddening. It often makes no sense.

If you needed more proof of that, look at what happened to Mark Hubbard today at the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit. This professional golfer hit what he thought was a bad tee shot on the par-13 14th hole and you know what happened? The ball went in the hole for ace.

Look at his club drop and reaction right after hitting the ball:

What a dumb game.

Twitter had reactions.

This PGA Tour player dropped his club in disgust after his tee shot, then laughed as he made an ace at Rocket Mortgage

He said “that’s embarrassing,” after his tee shot on par-3 hole No. 11 at the Detroit Golf Club on Thursday.

Mark Hubbard dropped his club in disgust and said “that’s embarrassing,” after his tee shot on par-3 hole No. 11 at the Detroit Golf Club on Thursday.

Not long after, he was covering his mouth in awe as he sunk a hole-in-one during the first round of the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

The ace moved Hubbard to 3 under par through 11 holes, a few shots off the lead at the time.

Hubbard, 33, previously made aces at the 2014 Frys.com Open and the 2019 Nashville Golf Open. Both Korn Ferry Tour events were steps to him gaining PGA Tour membership for the subsequent season.

 

Hubbard boasts a Korn Ferry Tour win at the 2019 LECOM Suncoast Classic and a 2013 Wildfire Invitational victory on PGA Tour Canada, but he has never won a PGA Tour event.

His best finishes this year came at the Barbasol Championship and the Barracuda Championship, where he placed third and fourth, respectively. He also held a share of the 18-hole lead at Club Car Championship but finished tied for ninth.

Live updates: Rocket Mortgage Classic live leaderboard and first-round updates from our friends at the Detroit Free Press

Hubbard wasn’t the only player peppering the front pin at No. 11. Tommy Gainey had his tee shot lip out earlier in the morning.

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Denver native Mark Hubbard not-so-subtly trolls Canada with Avalanche shirt on PGA Tour

“Tell Canada, I want them to know it was the Avs,” Hubbard, probably.

As they wait for their opponent in the Stanley Cup Final, it’s worth reflecting on the Avalanche’s path to return to the NHL’s biggest stage.

In the first round, they swept the hapless Predators. Nashville never even had a chance. Then, despite a little more fight from their opponent, Colorado dispatched the rival Blues in six games without breaking much of a sweat. Maybe next year, Jordan Binnington!

Finally and most notably, they steamrolled Canada’s last chance at a Cup in 2022 by sweeping Connor McDavid and the Oilers. That makes it 29 years since any of the NHL’s Canadian teams last hoisted the Cup. Can you imagine a country loving a sport so much and never winning its top prize? Tough scene.

During the RBC Canadian Open on Thursday, Denver native/PGA Tour golfer Mark Hubbard made sure to remind the hometown fans of that fact in the funniest way:

Look at that confident strut after making his putt. That’s a man who knows he’s making himself a public sports enemy and is absolutely reveling in it. Sorry, Canada. Maybe, finally, next year will be the year.

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Mark Hubbard ‘might break out’ crazy snail putting grip at Phoenix Open

If you haven’t seen Mark Hubbard’s snail-grip putting technique, well, with a little bit of luck, you might this week at TPC Scottsdale.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Might the snail re-emerge from its shell once again?

Mark Hubbard indicated that fans just might get to see perhaps the wildest, goofiest, silliest putting stroke in golf sometime this week. But only under the right circumstances.

Hubbard shot an opening-round 63 on Thursday in the Waste Management Phoenix Open and took the co-lead with Matthew NeSmith at TPC Scottsdale, thanks in part to 28 putts made using his traditional grip.

“For whatever reason, I really like this place a lot, and it always kind of seems to kick me into gear right around this time of the year,” said Hubbard, who is from Colorado and played collegiately at San Jose State. It was there that the goofy snail thing got started. The term was coined by one of his college teammates.

Waste Management Phoenix Open: Photos | Leaderboard | Tee times, TV info

Hubbard broke out the snail on the Friday of the American Express. On his way to a 76, he was pretty much playing out the string in the second round when he decided to showcase the move. But then he missed the putt.

“It usually makes for an automatic putt inside five feet,” Hubbard said. “Little disappointed I missed that one.”

But since that tournament two weeks ago, Hubbard has been working on his putting. Like, working on his real putting stroke.

“I’ve worked on it a little,” he said, while admitting “I haven’t done much of the snail, but we were joking on 16 that if I had hit it to a tap-in’s length that I would have had to have done it.

“But who knows, we might break it out this week.”

“Yeah? The snail could be in play?” he was asked.

“Ideally a tap-in on 16 or a tap-in with like a two-shot lead on 18 for the win, those would be the two situations to break it out,” he said.

Hubbard’s in the final group teeing off on the 10th tee on Friday at 3:20 p.m. ET. The rough math says that should get him to the 16th green a little after 5 p.m. or so. With the sun starting to set in the Arizona desert, perhaps it’ll be the perfect time for the snail to make another appearance.

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Watch: Mark Hubbard invents a putting stroke you’ve got to see to believe

We’re not sure what Mark Hubbard was thinking on this putting stroke but you’ve got to see it to believe it.

Never underestimate the creativity of a desperate putter.

But as Golf Channel’s Trevor Immelman so aptly put it, Mark Hubbard went “next level” on Friday at the American Express. The 31-year-old Colorado native was having a forgettable round of 76 that would send him packing for the weekend, so, why not try something, well, a little different.

And different this was.

Hubbard extended his right arm and wrapped his pinky finger around the lower portion of his shaft for support on his 10-foot putt.

“What in the heck was that?” Golf Channel’s Curt Byrum said.

“He can’t believe he missed it,” Immelman said.

This is a video you have to see to believe. Words don’t do it justice, but wonderful analysis from Immelman. And even the judge from the former Soviet Union would have given Hubbard at least a 9 for creativity.

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U.S. Open: Brian Harman, four others now in Winged Foot field

The initial field of 144 players for next week’s U.S. Open was finalized with five players from the final 2019-20 FedExCup points list.

The initial field of 144 players for next week’s U.S. Open was finalized Tuesday with the addition of the five players from the final 2019-20 FedExCup points list not otherwise exempt. Sebastian Munoz, Brian Harman, Tyler Duncan, Mark Hubbard and Danny Lee were the last ones in.

All players have until 5 p.m. Friday to confirm whether they will play in the championship Sept. 17-20 at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck.

With traditional qualifying deemed unsafe in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the USGA in June issued the list of exemptions that would be used to set up the field this year. There are two locals in the field, Danny Balin, a Valhalla resident who is the head professional at Fresh Meadow Country Club on Long Island, and Brandon Wu, a Korn Ferry Tour winner who resided in Scarsdale prior to the start of his pro career.

120th U.S. Open field

Byeong Hun An
Abraham Ancer
a-John Augenstein
Danny Balin
Paul Barjon
Daniel Berger
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Keegan Bradley
Rafa Cabrera Bello
Patrick Cantlay
Paul Casey
a-Ricky Castillo
Cameron Champ
Corey Conners
Joel Dahmen
Jason Day
Bryson DeChambeau
Thomas Detry
Tyler Duncan
Harris English
Tony Finau
Matthew Fitzpatrick
Tommy Fleetwood
Rickie Fowler
Ryan Fox
Sergio Garcia
Lucas Glover
Lanto Griffin
Chesson Hadley
Adam Hadwin
a-Cole Hammer
Justin Harding
Brian Harman
Tyrrell Hatton
Scott Hend
Lucas Herbert
Jim Herman
Lee Hodges
Rasmus Hojgaard
Max Homa
Billy Horschel
Sam Horsfield
Viktor Hovland
Charles Howell
Mark Hubbard
Mackenzie Hughes
Sungjae Im
Shugo Imahira
Ryo Ishikawa
Stephan Jaeger
Jazz Janewattananond
Marty Jertson
Dustin Johnson
Zach Johnson
Matt Jones
a-Takumi Kanaya
Sunghoon Kang
Martin Kaymer
Chan Kim
Si Woo Kim
Kevin Kisner
Kurt Kitayama
Brooks Koepka
Jason Kokrak
Matt Kuchar
Romain Langasque
Danny Lee
Marc Leishman
Tom Lewis
Adam Long
Mike Lorenzo-Vera
Shane Lowry
Curtis Luck
Robert MacIntyre
Hideki Matsuyama
Dan McCarthy
Graeme McDowell
Rory McIlroy
Troy Merritt
a-Lukas Michel
Phil Mickelson
Collin Morikawa
Sebastian Munoz
Kevin Na
Joaquin Niemann
Alex Noren
Shaun Norris
a-Andy Ogletree
Louis Oosthuizen
Adrian Otaegui
a-John Pak
Ryan Palmer
Renato Paratore
Taylor Pendrith
Eddie Pepperell
Victor Perez
Thomas Pieters
J.T. Poston
Ian Poulter
Andrew Putnam
Jon Rahm
Chez Reavie
Patrick Reed
Davis Riley
JC Ritchie
Justin Rose
a-Eduard Rousaud
Xander Schauffele
Scottie Scheffler
Matthias Schwab
Adam Scott
a-Sandy Scott
Greyson Sigg
Webb Simpson
Cameron Smith
Brandt Snedeker
Jordan Spieth
Henrik Stenson
Kevin Streelman
Steve Stricker
a-James Sugrue
Andy Sullivan
a-Preston Summerhays
Connor Syme
Justin Thomas
a-Davis Thompson
Michael Thompson
Brendon Todd
Sami Valimaki
Erik van Rooyen
Ryan Vermeer
Jimmy Walker
Matt Wallace
Bubba Watson
Richy Werenski
Lee Westwood
Bernd Wiesberger
Danny Willett
Matthew Wolff
Gary Woodland
Tiger Woods
Brandon Wu
a-Chun An Yu
Will Zalatoris

Mike Dougherty covers golf for The Journal News/lohud, part of the USA Today Network. He can be reached at mdougher@lohud.com or on Twitter @hoopsmbd and @lohudgolf.

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Ian Poulter, Mark Hubbard lead after the first round of the RBC Heritage

Golfweek’s JuliaKate Culpepper recaps the first round at Harbour Town Golf Links.

Golfweek’s JuliaKate Culpepper recaps the first round at Harbour Town Golf Links.

2020 RBC Heritage Live Stream, PGA Tour, Live Leaderboard, TV Channel, How to Watch

PGA Tour is back this week with the RBC Heritage which will be played at Harbour Town in Hilton Head, South Carolina. 

Last week golf fans got a taste of what the PGA Tour will look like for the next three months and it definitely beat expectations. With the leaderboard looking like a major event, the Charles Schwab Challenge did not disappoint.

This week we have the RBC Heritage which will be played at Harbour Town in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

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RBC Heritage Rounds 1 – 2

  • When: Thursday – Friday
  • Time: 3 – 6 p.m ET
  • TV Channel: Golf Channel
  • Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)

With the shortened season, every event should look like a major with most of the top 20 golfers in the world set to play a much more intense tournament than years past. Here is a look at the live leaderboard for the RBC Heritage, we will keep this updated!

Live Leaderboard

T-1. Ian Poulter (-7)

T-1. Mark Hubbard (-7)

T-3. Sebastian Munoz (-6)

T-3. Viktor Hovland (-6)

T-3. Michael Thompson (-6)

T-6. Matthew NeSmith (-5)

T-6. Jordan Spieth (-5)

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