Traffic jam 脅すs for Aussies at the Open
Lucas Herbert needed a police 護衛する to 急ぐ him to 王室の St George's and Brad Kennedy nearly jumped out of his car to run to the course after traffic jams at the British Open 供給するd pre-選手権 脅すs for two 最高の,を越す Australian players.
Sergio Garcia was also の中で 星/主役にする performers who were left panicking that they wouldn't make their tee times and needed police help after the return of one of the 広大な/多数の/重要な 冒険的な festivals saw the (人が)群がるs 急ぐ 支援する to the little Kent town of 挟む on Thursday.
The traffic 大混乱 their return brought with them left the unsuspecting Aussie 二人組, の中で others, feeling a little bit panicked as they 恐れるd they might be disqualified for getting there too late.
Herbert, one of the real form horses on the European 小旅行する after his 最近の Irish Open 勝利,勝つ, is used to cutting things 罰金 but he was even later than usual after he 攻撃する,衝突する 激しい traffic trying to get from his nearby hotel.
He reckoned it 与える/捧げるd to a 哀れな start to his first 一連の会議、交渉/完成する before he 回復するd superbly to finish at even par.
"This morning, I was a bit thrown out," explained the 25-year-old.
"It's already going to be tricky here with so much going on around the tournament (regarding COVID-19 制限s).
"You've got to get 往復(する)s from here to there and there are long walks between the putting green and what-not, so you've already got to factor in a little bit more time.
"Then the traffic was horrific this morning. We had to get a police 護衛する in the end to get here (for a 9.14am tee time) and I was still really late - which is pretty much how I operate anyway!"
Hope Island's Kennedy, the 47-year-old who topped the Australasian Order of 長所 last year to qualify, said it took him one and a half hours to travel the seven miles from his base in the village of Walmer to 挟む.
"The traffic was so bad I was pretty much about to leave the car at the 味方する of the road, it was looking pretty tr icky.
"I left three hours before my tee time and I was beginning to panic a little bit. I certainly won't do that again! I'll be 井戸/弁護士席 and truly here long before my tee time!"
Herbert reckoned his 急ぐd 準備s may have 与える/捧げるd to him 存在 "half-asleep until the 支援する nine" after he started in 特に distracted fashion with a 二塁打 bogey at the first.
"Then things started to kick off and got myself 支援する into it," 追加するd the Bendigo player, who 記録,記録的な/記録するd four birdies in five 穴を開けるs straight after the turn to 結局最後にはーなる at level par.
"Feel like I've done no 損失 with that first 一連の会議、交渉/完成する, but would've liked a couple いっそう少なく. Can't be too upset," he said.
Kennedy, too, was happy with his one-over par 71, 公式文書,認めるing: "The younger ones can 攻撃する,衝突する it a long way, but you've still go to get it into the 穴を開ける."
Garcia also needed a police 護衛する to get to the course, after arriving an hour later than he'd 手配中の,お尋ね者.
"Even though I left the house with plenty of time, I needed a little bit of help from a couple of very nice English policemen on the bikes to get me here with only about 35, 40 minutes to tee off, when usually I like to be here around an hour and a half before," smiled Garcia, who ended up 狙撃 a 68.