Rounds of golf can really feel unending. It is simply you, the competitors and a boundless course. The routine of driving the golf cart from tee to tee 18 instances can appear mundane, ceaseless and nerve-wrecking — particularly when there are not any breaks. No time to cease, suppose and … pee?
Besides on Thursday on the Masters, the place U.S. Beginner champion Jose Luis Ballester simply couldn’t maintain it in anymore and risked his delight for a much-needed toilet break.
Ballester, a 21-year-old from Spain, had to make use of the restroom within the worst means on the par-5 thirteenth gap, the place Justin Thomas in his group had hit into the azalea bushes behind the inexperienced. Ready for Thomas to look and rescue his ball, Ballester took the prospect to search out reduction.
“Did not actually know the place to go, and since JT had a difficulty on the inexperienced, I am like, ‘I am simply going to sneak right here within the river and possibly folks wouldn’t see me that a lot,'” he mentioned.
“It was not embarrassing in any respect for me,” he added. “If I needed to do it once more, I’d do it once more.”
In spite of everything, it could be powerful to deal with a chip from the tough or a putt from the inexperienced whereas attempting to carry in a pee. Regardless, Ballester sits at 4 over par and tied for 73rd place after Spherical 1 on Thursday.
For a second, after relieving himself, Ballester thought he had averted the general public’s eye as his again was turned to the grandstand whereas he went in Rae’s Creek. As an alternative, as he completed up, he was met with a spherical of applause.
“In all probability one of many claps that I actually bought at this time, actual loud,” Ballester mentioned after opening with a 76. “In order that was form of humorous.”
His large mistake was not realizing there was a restroom close to the thirteenth tee field. That is the primary Masters for the Arizona State senior.
Utilizing the course to alleviate oneself isn’t all that uncommon in golf; gamers will typically duck into the woods or go someplace away from the gang. However there isn’t any hiding at Augusta Nationwide, and for Ballester, this was no time to attend.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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