Higgins admits 15th club mistake

Brian Keogh of the Irish Golf Desk writes about Higgins’ mistake of having an extra club in his bag

Waterville’s David Hggins admits that he has no-one but himself to blame for the extra club error that cost him his chance to qualify for The Open.

The 40-year old explained in his regular column on GolfcentralDaily.com that he had dried and stored all his gear, inclucing a spare rescue club, after finishing on five under in Local Final Qualifying at North Berwick.

Believing he would only have an outside chance of forcing a play-off for perhaps one place, he had lunch and watched the scores. A few hours later he was left kicking himself after remembering he’d put a 15th club in his bag:

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“I couldn’t believe it but was delighted to see the way things were panning out as I moved up the leaderboard and became more confident that I could get one of the spots available in the playoff.

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Explaining how his afternoon developed out, Higgins wrote:

“I couldn’t believe it but was delighted to see the way things were panning out as I moved up the leaderboard and became more confident that I could get one of the spots available in the playoff.

“I decided to go the range to warm up again and hit a few balls. I just took driver, mid iron and wedge. It was still raining really hard so I kept the rain cover on my bag. My caddy for the day, Monty, a local man that knows north Berwick like the back of his hand, had done a great job all day and was up for the playoff.

About The Author

Brian Keogh is the golf correspondent for The Irish Sun and a regular contributor to golf coverage in The Irish Times, Golf Digest Ireland, the Irish Independent, RTE Radio, the Golf Channel, Setanta Ireland (TV), the Irish Examiner, Golf World, The Sunday Times and the Irish Daily Star amongst others.