‘Shoeless’ Lucas Glover units the document straight on 3M footwear stunt

At this previous week’s 3M Open, Lucas Glover discovered what Paul McCartney found practically 60 years in the past when he appeared barefoot on the duvet of Abbey Highway: Take off your footwear in an odd place, and individuals are sure to speak.

And when sufficient individuals speak, they’re sure to lose observe of the information within the course of.

In case you missed the misguided chatter, let’s stroll it again.

Throughout Sunday’s last spherical at TPC Twin Cities, Glover rolled in a birdie putt on the par-4 tenth gap, then eliminated his golf footwear earlier than reaching into the cup to retrieve his ball. The transfer instantly sparked hypothesis on Golf Channel and past that Glover — an outspoken critic of the AimPoint green-reading methodology — was making one other assertion in regards to the controversial method.

He wasn’t.

On Monday, the previous U.S. Open champ took to Instagram to set the document straight.

“Alight, let’s clear this up,” he wrote, earlier than explaining that his impromptu footwear transfer had nothing to do with AimPoint. As a substitute, he mentioned, it stemmed from a grievance he’d acquired about sporting steel spikes.

Glover has been a metal-spikes man since he first acquired on Tour 23 years in the past. Sunday’s spherical, he mentioned, marked the primary time he’d been approached about his footwear, mid-competition. Extra uncommon nonetheless, he famous, the one who approached him was not a participant however an official.

“Initially, it’s not the officers’ place. I wasn’t breaking any guidelines,” Glover wrote. “Secondly, there have been individuals within the teams in entrance of me and behind me sporting steel spikes as nicely.”

Glover described his barefoot stroll as a “demonstration,” however mentioned it had nothing to do with AimPoint. Slightly, he defined, it was his approach of approaching the outlet with out scuffing up the turf.

To verify nobody missed the message, Glover saved returning to the identical chorus concerning a 2019 guidelines change concerning spike marks.

“Have I discussed that we will tamp them down now?”

Truly, he had.

Glover additionally mentioned he was puzzled that anybody related his actions to AimPoint.

“My demonstration yesterday had nothing to do with AimPoint,” he wrote. “I do not know how anybody got here to that conclusion.”

Greater than something, although, Glover mentioned he regretted that the episode grew to become a narrative in any respect, significantly on a day when 21-year-old Jackson Koivun claimed his first Tour victory.

“My greatest disappointment in all of that is {that a} small faction are speaking about this, a non-issue, as a substitute of Jackson Koivun,” Glover wrote.

His rationalization ought to put the AimPoint theories to relaxation. But when Glover desires to keep away from one other spherical of comparable chatter, he may take into account doing what John, George and Ringo did on Abbey Highway and maintain his footwear on.