Golf can cause emotions to run high and, no matter what level you are, it can cause tempers to boil over. In the case of former college teammates and now PGA Tour players, Scottie Scheffler and Beau Hossler, that was very much nearly a reality…
In January 2024, University of Texas head golf coach, John Fields, appeared on the Subpar podcast and told a story about how the former teammates got into an altercation, claiming “there was almost a fight”.
Speaking on the podcast, Fields states: “Beau walks by this golf ball and he looks at it, and for whatever reason he thinks that he’s outdriven Scottie by 15 yards. So, Scottie doesn’t think anything — we walk right past the ball and Beau looks at the golf ball. Scottie hits his shot, we get up to the (other) ball, Beau’s turn now, and he looks down and goes, ‘This is not my ball.”
He adds: “You would’ve thought Mount Vesuvius just went off, like we had a volcano 15 yards below us. Scheffler got so mad when he figured out that he’d hit the wrong ball, he ran up to the green, 260 yards on a dead sprint, picked up the ball, ran back, and threw it at Beau’s feet. Beau goes ahead and hits the right shot, and Scottie has lost the hole now.
“He’d just lost a hole, but it’s killing him. And now, they’re jawing against each other on the way up (to the green), and finally on the next hole, on the par-3, I tell Beau, ‘We are not going another step further until you apologize to Scottie for that.'”
Both graduated from the University of Texas around the same time, and now, some many years after the incident, both have been asked about the experiences at the Texas Children’s Houston Open, with Hossler recounting the story following his first round.
Hossler and Scheffler during the 2022 Genesis Invitational
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According to Hossler, the story told by Fields “wasn’t inflated,” with the American stating: “We were playing this mess-around tournament before the regional there. Basically we were both playing a match. I wasn’t playing him, I was playing a New Mexico kid and he was playing a New Mexico kid. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Lubbock, but it’s very windy. I hit one on the water on 18, which was the ninth hole. It was so windy you couldn’t hear each other from however far apart, so I didn’t even like announce what ball I was playing but I just hit.
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