Golf star drags protester off The Open course as police step in after flare lit

Billy Horschel was hailed as a hero by the Hoylake crowds after dragging away a Just Stop Oil protester throughout The Open Championship. The American intervened after three environmental activists sporting white Just Stop Oil T-shirts broke by safety ranks on the seventeenth inexperienced to stage a sit-down protest.

Horschel, whose golf bag carries the colors of his soccer membership West Ham, stepped in to assist a marshal take away a girl who had emptied a bag of orange confetti on the perimeter of the inexperienced to large cheers.

The R and A had warned gamers to not ‘do a Jonny Bairstow’ if activists disrupted The Open however an offended Horschel was eager to take issues into his personal arms as enjoying companions Alex Noren and Corey Connors seemed on.

After a five-minute delay whereas safety employees and police eliminated one other girl and a person carrying a lit orange flare, Horschel bought up and down from the facet of the inexperienced for a par to an enormous ovation.

The reception for the activists was not so sympathetic. “S***house,” shouted a fan as one protestor wa led away. The confetti was hoovered up after another group has gone by with no additional disruption to play.

Fathers For Justice focused the Hoylake Open in 2006 with a purple powder assault.

Ahead of the Major, English star Justin Rose pleaded with Just Stop Oil to depart The Open alone.

“They believe in their cause and their cause is not outrageous, it’s just I think when you mess with what people enjoy that’s not going to make any friends,” mentioned Rose.

“Some sporting events are sacred to people. It’s their release, their getaway from their everyday life.”