Unfortunately, those three hours were costly. Wright missed his originally scheduled ferry and had to suffer through Monday morning traffic he hadn’t accounted for.
All told, Wright’s club delivery arrived approximately six hours later than expected, and those players who were hoping to play a practice round on Monday morning were out of luck.
Thompson was not available for comment, but her agent, Bobby Kreusler, spoke to Mell. “Forgetting her passport, that was an honest mistake,” he said. “And she had no idea retrieving it would cause the delay it did, or that it would impact other players the way it did. She would never have wanted that.”
Ryann O’Toole, who had issues with an airline losing her clubs last week, saw things differently.
“I don’t know why the driver would agree to accommodate one person knowing it would punish about a third of the field,” O’Toole told Mell. “The driver should have said, ‘Hey, I’ve got to get these clubs to Woburn. If you want the passport, somebody’s going to have to fly there to get it and bring it back.’”
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