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The U.S. Women’s Open champion, Maja Stark, had clearly had enough Sunday at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
NBC Sports showed footage of Stark putting with a pitching wedge on the par-4 16th hole during the final round at Fields Ranch East in Frisco, Texas. She was standing over a 15-footer for birdie and putted her ball to about four feet. She made that for par.
Then the network flashed back to a previous hole when Stark was walking off a green and, with two hands over her right shoulder, took her putter and slammed it into her golf bag. The head flew off and Stark continued to walk and, without breaking stride, the 25-year-old Swede picked the putter head up and flipped it back toward her caddie Jeff Brighton.
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It wasn’t clear when Stark unleashed on the flatstick, but she made bogey on Nos. 10 and 12, and a double bogey on the par-3 15th hole. Smart money would be that it happened there.
Still, she parred each of the last five holes to shoot a final-round 78 to end the week at 12-over-par 300 total.
Just three weeks ago Stark held the 54-hole lead at the U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills and marched toward her first major title, making her the sixth woman from Sweden to capture one of the LPGA’s top titles. No word on whether the putter she damaged in Texas was the one she used to mow over the field in Wisconsin.
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