Golfer watch birth of daughter on Facetime Archives - Golf Digest Middle East https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/tag/golfer-watch-birth-of-daughter-on-facetime/ Golf Instruction, Equipment, Courses, Travel, News Thu, 07 Sep 2017 06:34:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/gd-favicon.ico Golfer watch birth of daughter on Facetime Archives - Golf Digest Middle East https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/tag/golfer-watch-birth-of-daughter-on-facetime/ 32 32 European Tour pro Facetimed for birth of second child because he “was on a good run of form” https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/european-tour-pro-facetimed-birth-second-child-good-run-form/ https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/european-tour-pro-facetimed-birth-second-child-good-run-form/#respond Thu, 07 Sep 2017 06:33:41 +0000 http://golfdigestme.com/?p=9512 European Tour pro Lee Slattery watched the birth of his daughter via Facetime so as not to waste a good run of form.

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Everyone knows you don’t walk away from the craps table when you’re on a heater, so using that same logic, you shouldn’t take a break from the course when you’re finally playing good golf. And European Tour pro Lee Slattery stuck to that thinking this week — even with his wife due to have their second child.

After finishing runner-up at last week’s Czech Masters, the England-based player who had finished T-9 and T-19 in his previous two starts after a rough start to the year traveled to Switzerland for the Omega European Masters. But two nights before the tournament started, Slattery’s wife, Faye, had a little girl. Thanks to technology, Slattery was at least able to watch the delivery on his phone via Facetime.

Here’s how Slattery, a two-time European Tour winner, explained his decision to play this week:

“I had two weeks off recently to spend time with her thinking she might be early like the first one,” Slattery said told the European Tour. “That didn’t happen, obviously, so I had to come away and play because I was on a good run of form.”

Hey, when you’re hot, you’re hot.

Here’s a clip of Slattery talking about his exciting Tuesday night, which also included him making a superstitious trip to an Indian restaurant. We’ll let him explain that one…

The tour added this follow-up tweet:

Our congrats to Lee and Faye as well. Regardless of whether Slattery’s “good run of form” continues in Switzerland, he’s already had a really good week.

 

 

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