Thanks for taking care of my clubs @Delta… pic.twitter.com/rVjvPT1tZz

— Matt Fitzpatrick (@MattFitz94) August 30, 2021

In the immortal words of Pete Campbell: NOT GREAT, BOB! It’s one thing for an airline to misplace your bathing suit. Money doesn’t grow on trees. You liked the cute lobster print. We get it. But an airline guillotining a professional golfer’s 5-wood is another level of incompetence. Will Fitzpatrick get another one promptly and at no cost to himself? Probably, but these are tools of a professional trade, not sunscreen, and should probably be treated as such.

We loved Eddie Pepperell’s response too:
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That bloody variant knows no bounds

— Eddie Pepperell (@PepperellEddie) August 30, 2021

Lee Westwood was on Fitzy’s side as well:

Been shafted there Fitzy!!!

— Lee Westwood (@WestwoodLee) August 30, 2021

Thankfully for Fitzpatrick, there’s a whole support group of airline-scorned pros waiting to console him. In 2017, United Airlines wrecked not one but three of Web.com player Mat Goggin’s clubs. That same year, Michael Buttacavoli had to withdraw from sectional qualifying for the U.S. Open after American Airlines lost his sticks, and Graeme McDowell nearly had to do the same after AirFrance misplaced his bag before a 2018 Open Championship qualifier.

See, Matt, it could be worse. When it comes to air travel, it can always be worse.

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