Stephen Gallacher Burns €130,000 By Playing Wrong Ball
You have to feel for Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher today at the Dunhill Links. Having won the event in 2004, Gallacher had put himself in a good position to contend again when a bizarre incident ended up costing him approximately €130,000 in prize money.
Playing in a fourball including an amateur, Gallacher played the wrong ball from the fairway on the 16th. Clearly distracted by the incident and the two shot penalty, he ended up taking a quadruple bogey eight on the hole.
He finished the event at 15 under, tied for fifth and won €102,000.
If those four shots were not lost on the 16th, Stephen would have finished alone in third with a cheque for almost €232,000. Ouch!
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