Before the start of Friday’s second round – action was delayed four hours due to high wind, with the first tee time slated for 1:55 p.m. ET – Joel Dahmen withdrew from the 2024 Shriners Children’s Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.
Dahmen shot a 1-over 72 on Thursday but incurred a four-shot penalty after he discovered there were 15 clubs in his bag on the fourth hole.
“Bizarr-o. Never happened to me before,” he said after his first round. “I travel with 15, 16 clubs. I think most people out here do depending on conditions and courses. You know, been traveling out here for a long time and never happened before. I’d like to blame (his caddie) Geno. That would be the easy thing to do. It’s not his fault either. I played Tuesday and Wednesday out here. We didn’t see it in there. It was an extra 4-iron, so I had two 4-irons in the bag.
“Why, I don’t know. I don’t know how it got there. It sucks. It sucks at the spot I’m in as well. Yeah, we got to four tee and I grabbed a water and I walked over to my bag and I saw a 4-iron that was in the wrong spot and our stuff is always in the right spot. It wasn’t in the right spot.
“You know, you just want to get so mad and you want to get mad at everything. At the same time, just got to keep playing golf, and I didn’t do a great job of that afterward.”
Dahmen admitted it was tough to refocus after the discovery.
No reason for the WD was given.
Dahmen was 124th in the FedEx Cup standings when the week started but he’s now 128th in the projection.
Joel Dahmen WD before round two at Shriners Children’s Open
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