Sports Fans Heckling Athletes Over Bets: Golf Joins the Trend

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - Max Homa heckled over a $3 bet.

00:06 We've seen this happen previously in sports.

00:09 More and more fans are kind of getting on the athletes here

00:14 and saying, "Hey, I bet on you," or, "I lost on you,"

00:17 or, "Congratulations, I won."

00:19 And now it's bleeding over to the golf course.

00:22 - Yeah, Craig, Max Homa over the weekend playing an event,

00:25 I believe in Illinois, like the 17th hole, five-foot putt,

00:29 and a fan yelled something like,

00:31 "Hit it to the left," or something, whatever it was.

00:34 But he made the putt, thankfully.

00:36 And he said, the friend of this guy who heckled him

00:39 who was apparently drunk, he said, "Hey, I get it.

00:42 "I like the fact there's gambling in golf,

00:44 "but this is something you have to watch out for."

00:47 We saw over the weekend, even Lucas Paquetta

00:49 with Manchester City, that potential transfer deal,

00:51 being in limbo because of potentially some betting.

00:55 They're doing an investigation there.

00:57 We've seen the NCAA stuff.

00:58 We've seen the NFL stuff.

01:00 So, just another sport with this.

01:02 We saw it with Marty Fish

01:04 in the celebrity tournament with Steph Curry.

01:06 A fan had yelled during his backswing.

01:08 I believe he won that tournament.

01:10 So yeah, Craig, just something to watch out for.

01:14 People have been betting on golf, even on the course.

01:16 Friends say, "Hey, five bucks, he misses his putt,"

01:18 or, "Hits the green on a drive, a fairway."

01:21 But this is not good.

01:23 And again, he said, "I get it."

01:25 I don't wanna bet shame, basically, is what he said,

01:26 but $3 over this.

01:27 There's millions of dollars on the line

01:29 in these tournaments.

01:30 And then other people may have had maximum

01:31 to make that putt.

01:32 How much money was on him, even in that micro market?

01:35 Maybe it was a couple bucks,

01:36 but the idea of this in a sport where nobody talks

01:39 until after the shots are over, just like tennis.

01:43 Yeah, something to keep an eye on.

01:45 People have been doing this,

01:46 but now with the Fandled DraftKings ads,

01:48 just the oversaturation of advertising

01:50 that a lot of regulators have had to cut back on,

01:53 you hope that this doesn't happen.

01:54 And there's really, it's hard to police

01:56 because you just have people there around the green

01:58 or the fairway, and they can kind of do what they want.

02:01 But you hope this stuff doesn't happen.

02:03 You hope people are smarter than this.

02:04 (upbeat music)

02:07 (bells chiming)

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