Sunday on the back nine of the Honda Classic, co-leader and eventual playoff winner Justin Thomas had a fan thrown out of the tournament.

I don’t appreciate the idea of that. That’s gonna be a no, dog. The PGA shouldn’t allow it.

It was crunch time for sure, and openly rooting for a guy to hit it in a hazard is not how golf is played. There’s a bit more of a gentleman’s agreement in golf than in any other game.

You don’t yell or move when a guy is about to hit. This guy didn’t: instead, apparently, he’d been openly rooting against Thomas, between shots, for several holes.

So Thomas hit his tee shot, asked the gallery who was talking all the smack, identified the guy, and said “That’s it buddy. You’re done. Have a nice day.” Like he was Lash LaRue or Dirty Harry.

Thomas later apologized, sort of. But each course has its own rules and each tournament its own security. You ask your caddie to talk to a guard and the guard handles it, by the course rules or the tournament rules. Players are the featured attraction but the inmates can’t run the asylum.

If you throw that guy out, why can’t Tommy Fleetwood or Jamie Lovemark throw out the idiot who says “Mashed potatoes!” or “Get in the hole!” after every dadgum tee shot? THERE’S a guy who needs to be dog-whipped and tied to a stake in a practice range ant hill. Throwing him out would be letting him get off easy.

Players can’t have guys thrown out. There are other ways, as I’ve explained, to handle it. It’s hard, but being a professional is hard. Deal with it.

If players start throwing people out, then fans should be able to throw players out. “Hey Thomas! You’re 8-over for the round and dogging it and I paid 75 bucks for a ticket? That’s it buddy. You’re done. Have a nice day.”

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