(Reuters) – Matt Kuchar apologised on Monday to all those who had to return to Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, North Carolina to watch him finish his final hole at the Wyndham Championship alone.
Kuchar was out of the running by the time he reached the closing par-four 18th hole on Sunday in dwindling daylight at Sedgefield where he sent his tee shot well left into trouble before marking his ball and deciding to finish in the morning.
Kuchar needed six minutes to cap his round on Monday with a par after getting line-of-sight relief from a scoreboard near the green that allowed him to drop in the adjacent fairway.
The 46-year-old American ultimately ended up in a 10-way share of 12th place that awarded him a $134,695 payday. A bogey would have lowered his payday to just over $77,000.
“Nobody wants to be that guy that’s showing up today, one person, one hole. Not even one hole, half a hole to putt,” Kuchar said on Monday.
“So apologies to the tournament, to everybody that had to come out. I know it stinks, I know the ramifications, I know it stinks. Certainly I apologize to force everybody to come out here.”
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
