LIV Golf star Joaquin Niemann had a disastrous hole in the first round of the U.S. Open that all but ended his hopes of winning his first major championship well before the weekend even begins. On Friday, that hole got even worse as he was issued a two-stroke penalty by the USGA for “serious misconduct” which turned his nine into an 11 on the par-4 sixth hole.
Niemann hit two drives out of bounds on the sixth hole and then scrambled his way to a quadruple bogey. On the USGA’s official U.S. Open leaderboard, the play-by-play of his hole shows that he received the two penalty shots after he hit his sixth shot from the native area. He hit that one just 112 yards and still had 131 yards to the pin, so he was clearly frustrated with his play and ended up throwing his club in disgust, which led to the punishment.
