Jim Furyk scared the hack out of Fluff Cowan and Slugger White when he – normally Mr. Reliable – overslept and missed his pro-am tee time and was disqualified from the Barclays. His #3 ranking in the FedEx Flop will drop to somewhere between 7-10. Hank Gola of the New York Daily News reports:
From the article:
Tour rules official Slugger White gave this account:
“We were looking for him this morning for a good half an hour prior to his tee time. I was with his caddie … with Mike Cowan, Fluff, and he asked me if I had seen him and I said ‘No, we are looking for him’. I asked him if he had seen him and if he had tried to call him and he said, ‘I have tried to call him but the phone won’t ring.’ I tried and it wouldn’t ring through.
“When things like that happen sometimes you think the worst … worried some stuff happened on the road,” White said. “Thank goodness that wasn’t what it was. We kept looking and kept trying to call. I didn’t know where he was staying, but it would have been too late. He rushed down and saw me on the deck down there by the clubhouse. He said, “Disqualified?” and I said, ‘Yes, I’m sorry.” He said he woke up at 7:23 and he got here in 12 minutes. His starting tee was No. 11 and that was about 7:36 a.m. or so when I talked to him … We had already sent the alternate out. It was Marc Leishman.”
Apologies to nerve-rattling, greasy-haired, geeky virgin Star Trek fans for today’s headline…
