Robert Allenby is once again in the eye of the media storm. If in January, the Australian was the subject of a beating and an alleged kidnapping after having drinks in Hawaii, now his name is in the news for having starred in a loud brawl with his caddie during the Canadian Open.
The pair have two different versions of what happened, although both admit there were insults before the caddie, Mick Middlemo, who has been with Allenby for 15 years, left the course in the middle of the round.
According to Allenby, the caddie chose the wrong club and that caused the ball to go for par into a creek to end up making triple bogey on that hole.
“I said, ‘You know this happens every week. This has been going on for the last three, four or five months. We keep making bad mistakes and you’re not helping me under the circumstances,'” Allenby said before Middlemo apparently “lost his temper” and then left the field.
Middlemo tells the story in a different way.
“He called me a fat bastard a couple of times,” Middlemo told an Australian website.
“I said, ‘A you don’t say that to me again.’ At that point they were both yelling at each other.
“I apologized to the players in our group, SJ Park and Jon Curran, because it was pretty strong.”
Middlemo later said that Allenby is “just a bully,” and that he had had enough.
“You can’t behave like that in a workplace, but somehow he thinks it’s appropriate on a golf course,” he added.
Allenby finished with 81 strokes, 9 over par, in the first round and withdrew from the tournament.
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