Rounds of golf can really feel unending. It is simply you, the competitors and a boundless course. The routine of driving the golf cart from tee to tee 18 instances can appear mundane, ceaseless and nerve-wrecking — particularly when there are not any breaks. No time to cease, assume and … pee?
Besides on Thursday on the Masters, the place reigning U.S. Beginner champion Jose Luis Ballester simply couldn’t maintain it in anymore and risked his pleasure for a much-needed rest room break.
Ballester, a 21-year-old from Spain, had to make use of the restroom within the worst means on the par-5 thirteenth gap, the place Justin Thomas in his group had hit into the azalea bushes behind the inexperienced. Ready for Thomas to look and rescue his ball, Ballester took the prospect to seek out reduction.
“Did not actually know the place to go, and since JT had a difficulty on the inexperienced, I am like, ‘I am simply going to sneak right here within the river and doubtless individuals wouldn’t see me that a lot,'” he stated.
On Saturday, Ballester stated that he apologized to Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership following the viral etiquette breach. “I already apologized to the membership,” he stated, “and I feel we simply transfer on from this second.”
His feedback come lower than two days after Ballester, the sixth-ranked beginner on the planet, doubled down on Thursday by saying, “It was not embarrassing in any respect for me. If I needed to do it once more, I might do it once more.”
In spite of everything, it will be powerful to concentrate on a chip from the tough or a putt from the inexperienced whereas making an attempt to carry in a pee. Regardless, Ballester sits at 4 over par and tied for 73rd place after Spherical 1 on Thursday.
For a second, after relieving himself, Ballester thought he had averted the general public’s eye as his again was turned to the grandstand whereas he went in Rae’s Creek. As a substitute, as he completed up, he was met with a spherical of applause.
“Most likely one of many claps that I actually received at present, actual loud,” Ballester stated after opening with a 76. “In order that was type of humorous.”
His large mistake was not realizing there was a restroom close to the thirteenth tee field. That is the primary Masters for the Arizona State senior.
Utilizing the course to alleviate oneself is just not all that uncommon in golf; gamers will typically duck into the woods or go someplace away from the group. However there is not any hiding at Augusta Nationwide, and for Ballester, this was no time to attend.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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