Graham DeLaet got to St. Andrews on Saturday hoping to get in plenty of practice at the year’s third major championship. Too bad his clubs didn’t get the memo.
The journey started off good enough for the 33-year-old Canadian, posing for a picture at the airport before takeoff:
Off to Scotland with my two favourite women, to win a little jug named Claret. #TheOpen pic.twitter.com/pAT6kHTkDm
— DeLetty (@GrahamDeLaet) July 11, 2015
But things quickly soured when he still didn’t have his clubs two days later. So he did what one does when you’re mildly famous in the year 2015: You call out the airline on social media.
Ok @AerLingus, enough is enough. I kind of need my golf clubs for @TheOpen. How is it possible to not even know where it is? #figureitout
— DeLetty (@GrahamDeLaet) July 13, 2015
He did manage to get some prep work in with a loaner set of clubs while he waited.
My man @Jules_Trudeau pic.twitter.com/Shohk8bblA
— DeLetty (@GrahamDeLaet) July 13, 2015
Big thanks to @TitleistonTour for hooking me up with a set of hooks this morning so I could play a practice round. pic.twitter.com/xL4QJf06Cj
— DeLetty (@GrahamDeLaet) July 13, 2015
And by Tuesday, the airline had located the clubs, and got them to DeLaet.
54 hours later...my babies have arrived! Time to get to work! pic.twitter.com/qSnmimQgZz
— DeLetty (@GrahamDeLaet) July 14, 2015
But just when he thought things were looking up, he opened the bag to find this:
You just can't make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/CWyEQXIPcK
— DeLetty (@GrahamDeLaet) July 14, 2015
So what happened? DeLaet explained that it was an explosion of protien powder that he keeps packed in his bag.
But that didn’t stop his Twitter followers from chiming in with their thoughts on the real culprit:
@GrahamDeLaet This is my theory... pic.twitter.com/QuLdAk9u4U
— Brian Kirk (@BrianKirkWX) July 14, 2015
@GrahamDeLaet pic.twitter.com/dAdfawOwvA
— Danny Goldberg (@dannygberg) July 14, 2015
@GrahamDeLaet Wow, did you just pull them up off the bottom of the North Sea?!
— Arron Oberholser (@ArronOberholser) July 14, 2015