NAIA Golfer Grant Whybark Purposefully Loses Playoff So Friend, Seth Doran, Could Qualify

You’re in a playoff with your college buddy and you’ve already qualified and made it to the NAIA national tournament.

You think to yourself: “If he wins this hole he gets to go to nationals and I’ve already qualified.”

What do you do? You kick his ass on that playoff hole and move on with your life.

After I heard this story I nearly fell out of my chair. In what other sport have you ever seen this? There is no excuse for this kind of blatant disregard for the competitive nature of any sport.

Grant Whybark hit his shot, roughly, 40 yards out of bounds off the tee so his friend and senior at the University of St. Francis, Seth Doran could win the playoff hole and make it to the nationals.

At first I thought to myself, “Wow, what a guy” and then I thought, “If I were Doran and my buddy told the press that he intentionally threw the match so that I could make it to nationals I would kick his ass.”

I have two major problems with this whole story: 1) NEVER throw a match, game, play, point. 2) If you ignore rule one, then at least make it look good and miss a putt and then afterwards keep your filthy mouth shut.

If I were the golf coach or a member of the nationals committee, if there is such a thing, I would throw Whybark out of nationals completely.

He has not only ruined the integrity of the game, but you have, in doing so, made himself look like a complete jackass.

Oh yeah, you also made Seth Doran look like a fool in public. Way to go buddy!