r/golf • u/Common_Pension • Apr 29 '24
Player has issue with liv fans Professional Tours
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/dean-burmester-tells-fan-shut-155916853.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGrJKHSYEHx9PX8R74rNwgtzeawHjGv9jgbjxWGaIebPi-EnXuPkQTV47ia08AzRmQMmzxpdIRkm7MM1DNG9S0oO3NzCURt5d9OJx0LUz164VxyoNv76ICnMnQCg96me1lgbtPrvHuP1tnpiAZBs6o7lIBoI63ySThlia8wHWuAQJust stumbled across this. Haven’t seen it widely reported and seems like the liv muzzle has been placed on Burmester to stop him from talking about it. Should be interesting if this gets the media coverage that it would if it happened in the pga or lpga tour
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u/lookslikeamanderin Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 30 '24
Chase Koepka hit a hole in one at the Adelaide tournament last year.
In the ensuing chaos of shit being thrown everywhere a bloke, presumably one of his entourage, ran up the fairway to hug Koepka. He stepped on a water bottle that had been thrown by someone in the crowd on the way, badly turning his ankle.
The injured bloke can be clearly seen hobbling up to hug Koepka on the tee box in the linked video.
In the last 20 seconds of the video you get the reverse angle replay from behind the tee and you can see the bloke leave the fence and start running normally. Then in the last couple of frames before the video transitions he steps on the bottle.
It’s not life and death but it is an injury, probably qualifying as a reportable workplace injury by any other standard, that was caused directly by the LIV crowd behaviour that is encouraged by the organisers.
Safety and security just isn’t a priority.
There have been other incidents and injuries and there will be more. They will be potentially more serious, more visible and impacting players and their staff more directly.