LPGA player gets DQ'd while calling out fellow golfer for CHEATING!
Here's one of of the craziest golf cheating, DQ stories you will ever read on Tour...
Tour pro Gabby Lemieux was disqualified from an LPGA Q-School event on Thursday while at the same time calling out a fellow player for cheating in the tournament.
Lemieux, 27, took to her Instagram Story to reveal the crazy incident that played out in the fourth round of the Stage 1 qualifying event in California.
Just when you think you've seen it all!
— GolfMagic (@GolfMagic) September 3, 2023
According to her Story, Lemieux claims she and one of her playing partners "called out a cheater for marking and replacing her ball incorrectly."
She says the caddies in her group also spotted the alleged cheating incident by another player in the field.
As Lemieux and her playing partner decided what to do in the scoring area, she ended up signing for a wrong scorecard in the process.
She thought she had signed for a round of 75, but as she was sat in the car afterwards and flicked up the scoreboard on her phone, she realised she had been put down for a 74.
Lemieux returned to the scorer's hut to make sure the score wasn't just wrong online, but unfortunately she realised she had been put down for a par on the 15th instead of a bogey, which meant she signed for a wrong card.
She put her mistake down to being "too consumed" with the cheating incident prior to checking her scorecard.
Here's what Lemieux posted on her Instagram Story:
Lemieux had posted rounds of 70, 73 and 74 prior to her round of 75 and eventual disqualification.
Thankfully for her, the scorecard mistake mattered little in the grand scheme of things as she would have missed the cut for Stage 2.
Lemieux received a number of messages off the back of what happened.
Some nice, some not so much.
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In one of Lemieux's further Instagram Story posts, she spoke more about the cheating incident prior to her DQ.
Lemieux wrote:
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The incident has certainly caused plenty of debate on Twitter following NUCLR Golf's post on it earlier today:
A cheating scandal took place during round 1 of LPGA Q-school yesterday. Gabby Lemieux took to Instagram to say she ‘saved the field from a cheater’ and in the process she mistakenly signed for an incorrect scorecard (she was DQd). She shared the DMs she got on IG pic.twitter.com/vwO5xJ0W3k
— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) September 1, 2023
Check out some of the responses here:
Soooo... You're telling me you are watching your opponents so hard that during the replacing of her ball you noticed a "half-inch" difference?
Good lord
— Hollywood99.eth (@RussNormandin) September 1, 2023
She was so consumed by another player cheating that she accidentally cheated, but it’s cool because she went back to the scorer’s table after she saw the scorecard online and was DQ’d?
Imo this sounds fishy
— Jake (@JakeAndHoops) September 1, 2023
“I cheated but so did someone else so u should be happy for me” lol
— SAHITHEEGALAAA6969 (@cookie69isback) September 1, 2023
Eyes on your own paper
— Robert Ferguson (@StopTheWooo) September 1, 2023
Guessing she was moving the ball closer. Most times, won't make a difference to the putt. But the 1 time it does... Good on Gabby, calling people out is necessary at times.
— Petey (@_petey89) September 1, 2023
Lemieux is an Epson Tour member and she joined the circuit in 2018.
She ranks 156th in the season standings, earning just shy of $2,000 from 17 events.
