He is the Zurich Classic champion who blew his chance of a second PGA Tour win after punching a sign and using his putter to tee off

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The Zurich Classic has always been seen as a ‘fun’ tournament to play in, even way back when it wasn’t a team event.

Most PGA Tour players use this week at the Zurich Classic as kind of a wind-down from the stress and strains of regular events.

There won’t be many temper tantrums at TPC Louisiana in Avondale this week, if any at all.

The light-hearted feel of the event shone through loud and clear when Shane Lowry ribbed Rory McIlroy for his slow start at the Zurich Classic on Thursday.

It’s actually very refreshing to watch tour players not take themselves so seriously for a change.

Interestingly, one previous Zurich Classic champion showed in 2015 that loosing your cool on the golf course is never a good thing.

When Zurich Classic champion Andres Romero blew his chance of a second PGA Tour win

Back in 2008, Argentinian golfer Andres Romero won The Zurich Classic in New Orleans.

It seemed at the time that he was destined for big things in the game. However, it didn’t quite work out for Romero.

Seven years later, whilst still searching for his second PGA Tour win, he was right in the thick of things towards the end of his third round at the Barracuda Championship.

Romero was 11 points adrift of the leader standing on the 15th tee in the modified stableford event. That equates to around five shots.

However, after hitting a poor drive, the South American lost his head, and punched a sign next to the tee-box.

He broke his finger in the process, and was forced to withdraw from the tournament in the end after putting off every tee and immediately picking his ball up for a ‘no-score’.

A double bogey or worse in the modified scoring system meant a score of -3 points on each of his final few holes.

That moment of madness was hugely costly for Romero in the end – he never managed to win on the PGA Tour ever again – leaving the Zurich Classic as his only victory in America.

The worst injury a professional golfer ever suffered on tour

Whilst Romero’s incident in 2015 was bad, it was nothing compared to what happened 24 years prior to that in England.

It’s worth noting that the Argentinian’s injury was self inflicted as well!

The worst injury of all-time out on the golf course was sustained by Richard Boxall.

Boxall was in contention to win the 1991 Open Championship when he broke his leg after hitting his tee-shot on the ninth hole of his third round.

What awful luck. Boxhall didn’t return to action until the following February and like the Zurich Classic champion of 2008, he failed to win on tour again.