Despite Clinching a Never-Before-Done Feat, 9x PGA Tour Champion Gets Roasted Over a 4-Year-Old Blunder: ‘Did You Tip..’

Maintaining a spotless career is a tough task. Once in a while, everyone makes mistakes led by temptation or other reasons. And quite similar is the case of this PGA Tour Pro who otherwise has an impressive tour career but his one mistake from the past still haunts him. Florida-born golfer Matt Kuchar, joined the PGA Tour in the year 2002 and since then he has won 9 times on the tour.

However, it was something he did after his win in 2008 after winning his eighth title, that brought him a lot of criticism. Kuchar didn’t pay his caddie the promised amount and faced much backlash for it. After that, he was quick to make the payment. With that bad incident behind him, Kuchar has a good reason to celebrate with an unforeseen achievement but his earlier sins do not leave him in peace.

PGA Tour Pro achieves new record at the FedEx Cup playoffs

This year Kuchar is playing in the FedEx Playoffs again. This makes him the last player to compete in all 17 versions of the postseason. This is a big feat for the golfer who is enjoying this accomplishment wholeheartedly. But his past mistake made its way through today, and is casting a shadow on his shining day.

Speaking about how he was feeling, Kuchar said at the event’s press conference. “It’s flown by, I assure you. I still feel like a kid. I still feel like I am fresh out of college, but here I am in the 17th Playoff.” He said that his day was great as many players congratulated him on this accomplishment, and that he was happy about it.

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However, some peers said something that reminded him of his old mistake. “I hear it basically through the media, I chuckled a bit at it because it is not a goal of anyone’s to be in this position and make the streak.” 

Without naming the incident he made an indirect approach to the matter. But other than that he is very pleased with his playoff streak and hearing about it from players “put more perspective to accomplishment.”

In 2018, Matt Kuchar won the Mayakoba Golf Classic. As Kuchar’s regular caddie wasn’t there for the tournament, David Giral Ortiz filled in for Kuchar at the event. Luckily, Kuchar made a win and took home $1.296 million, out of which only paid Ortiz $5,000, which is 0.38 percent of the prize money.

This caused a social media controversy. And Kuchar unwisely defended himself with some insensitive remarks. After much backlash, he apologized and paid Ortiz $50,000, and also donate an unspecified amount to local Cancun charities. And looks like some fans still have a fresh memory of that incident and refuse to forgive him.

Matt Kuchar gets fresh reminders from fans of his past mistake.

Though most fans were still upset by his old move and registered their criticism in the comments, some fans defended him as well.

But some fans also praised him for achieving the milestone:

One big fan left this sweet comment“Such a nice guy”

Though 4 years have gone by, Kuchar still has a strong feeling about the incident in his heart and so do the fans. Although for now, he must put his concentration on the big playoff this weekend.

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