COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A video of Padraig Harrington arguing with NBC on-course reporter Roger Maltbie for not serving to him search for a misplaced ball throughout his opening spherical is producing buzz on the U.S. Senior Open.
“By no means on a golf course stand and take a look at any individual in search of a golf ball,” Harrington is seen telling Maltbie on video captured by an area TV reporter exterior the scoring space. “You have performed golf all of your life. You perceive.”
The argument stemmed from Thursday’s spherical, when Harrington teed off right into a thicket of timber on the fifteenth gap. After a few dozen folks unsuccessfully looked for the allowed three minutes, Harrington went again to the tee field for his third shot. He ended up saving bogey, and went into the weekend tied for the lead.
Maltbie, the longtime on-course reporter who performed on the PGA Tour within the Seventies and ’80s, was within the space. He instructed Golf.com on Saturday he was being requested to report on the state of affairs and could not step away from his job to assist in the search.
A day after the episode, Harrington and Maltbie aired out their variations close to the scoring space.
Maltbie might be heard telling Harrington, “So I ought to have disobeyed my producer?”
Within the interview with Golf.com, he stated: “I used to be very near saying, ‘All these years, all these checks I’ve gotten from NBC, your title is not on any of them.”