SAVANNAH, Ga. — Ryan McCormick has not been having a lot enjoyable this 12 months on the Korn Ferry Tour, so he determined to regulate his anger Friday by taping his mouth shut.
The Korn Ferry Tour posted video of McCormick enjoying with clear tape over his mouth and explaining the peculiar transfer.
“Been having not-so-fun instances this 12 months on the golf course. Fairly offended and mad,” McCormick mentioned after his spherical. “So I figured I’ve tried plenty of issues, and I simply figured I would shut myself up. So I put tape over my mouth.”
Golf is difficult.
Ryan McCormick resorted to taping his mouth throughout R2 of @clubcarchamp. pic.twitter.com/rBjreDoNfN
— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) April 4, 2025
After opening with a 1-over 73 on the Membership Automotive Championship, he posted a 72 and was sure to overlook the reduce.
One cause for the extraordinary transfer was McCormick mentioned he did not wish to create a unfavorable expertise for his enjoying companions.
“I hoped perhaps that it will assist me. Cannot say that it did or did not. It definitely makes you breathe. I felt like Bane, like Batman, muzzle myself. I imply, I am not like proud. I do not wish to create an expertise for my enjoying companions that is not truthful. And, you recognize, it isn’t truthful to me both or different folks. Having a troublesome time, and that was my resolution immediately.”
McCormick, relegated again to the developmental Korn Ferry Tour after a 12 months on the PGA Tour in 2024, has performed the weekend solely 3 times in six begins and has but to complete within the prime 40.
He mentioned he has learn books and talked to folks. Nothing appears to work.
“I’ve run out of concepts, and I believed in regards to the tape factor a few weeks in the past,” McCormick mentioned. “So simply sadly it got here right down to that immediately.”
