Garrick Higgo late on tee cost him minimum $22,000!

Garrick Higgo is a left-handed American professional golfer who was until the end of play yesterday competing in the fourth major golf tournament: the PGA (Professional Golfers' Association - an American major golf tournament).

In the first round he was late on the tee and incurred a 2-stroke penalty. He still managed to shoot 1 under par for the round but shot 6 over in the second round to finish at 5 over par. 

The cut was at 4 over par. He missed it by one. For non-golfers missing the cut at the halfway stage of a four round pro-tournament (the standard) means that the golfer does not receive prize money. It is all expenses for the golfer and it is expensive to play in these tournaments.

And so for Higgo this was a catastrophic loss. His excuse for not making the first tee in time? He did not want to hang around the tee for a few minutes waiting to tee-off because it was a little cold!

Higgo has learned a $22,000 lesson. That amount is the last place prize. If he had done well be could have won considerably more, perhaps well over $100k.

Video - he kind of makes excuses for being careless. He fought the 2-stroke penalty without success.

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