A women's golfer at the Augusta National amateur tournament is getting ripped for her pre-shot routine this week.
Bailey Shoemaker, a junior at USC and the 68th-ranked amateur women's golfer, is making her fifth appearance at the Augusta National Women's Amateur tournament this week. Shoemaker finished in second place at the event in 2024. She'll look to do one better this week.
The USC Trojans golfer shot a one-over 73 in the opening round on Wednesday. However, she faced heavy criticism online for her "insane" pre-shot routine.
A video of Shoemaker taking 74 seconds to hit her shot went viral on X, formerly known as Twitter, this week.
"This is part of her routine," the announcers claimed.
Golf fans are ripping her.
"1) The leaderboard for ANWA is really good today. 2) This should be an automatic DQ. No place for this in the game. Horrifying behavior that The Ridler needs to deal with swiftly and forcefully!" one argued.
"Fell out of my chair at 51-second mark," one fan added.
"Not singling this girl out. It’s an epidemic with young golfers. This is not a video loop. This is one shot! But 1 minutes 15 seconds to pull the trigger shouldn’t be allowed. This doesn’t include the time for setup and planning. At the youth level maybe we actually need a strict shot clock. Have to start early. Once a player is used to this, it’s crazy pressure to change it," one fan added.
"iI seems like every single high profile junior or amateur event with cameras we get a video of this genre, (i've captured/shared them myself before, but this one from "mensgrill69") and then the wolves just quote tweet into the carcass with slightly diff ways saying the same thing: it's bad," another fan wrote.
Others, meanwhile, are defending her.
Playing slow is an epidemic in the golf world. No matter what you're going through, you shouldn't take 1:15 to hit your shot.
Play fast, everyone.
