Colt Knost asked Matt Every the question golf fans have been asking for years: “How many times have you been fined on the PGA Tour and how many total?”
Every vent to think.
“I don’t know the exact total number of fines, or the dollar amount,” said Every, a guest on the latest episode of GOLF’s Subpar Podcast. “I know my biggest one was I think I got 20 (thousand) twice. And then like a couple, a handful of 5s.”
“What were the 20s about?”
“You don’t hear the 5s,” he said. (Laughs)
Each played in 279 PGA Tour events and won twice (back-to-back Arnold Palmer Invitationals in 2014 and 2015) and earned over $10 million in career earnings, but he was also known for his fiery demeanor on the course.
Each said his famous club shot at the AT&T Byron Nelson at Trinity Forest in 2019 led to one of the biggest fines.
He was playing well that week and was going under during his second round, but on the par-5 14th hole, a drive he thought cleared a middle bunker — which would have left just a 6-iron for his second shot — buried in the edge of the bunker.
“I didn’t know how to handle it at the time,” Every said. “I threw this thing, and like 10 yards was the most I could get out of it, and I just got out for a second.”
Each threw his stick into the ether. The good folks at Getty Images must have thought it was such an impressive shot that they made a whole photo sequence of it.
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Each said some of the fines were due to tour volunteers reporting him, and he also said that PGA Tour rules official Stephen Cox always seemed to be there when Every was bloated, joking that Cox would don camo and wait in the trees for Every to slip.
“There would be times when I’d miss a putt or pull an iron and I’d look over and see Steven up on the hill and he was looking at me like 20 seconds after this ball had already left the face,” Every said. “And I would yell at him and say, ‘Do you want me to throw it? Or do you expect me to do that? Because I will. I’m crazy enough to do that right now.'”
However, each says his club shooting days are behind him and the memorable shot by Byron Nelson is probably the last he ever had. These days he is the host of “The Drop” on the Golf Channel and a golf analyst for the PGA Tour and ESPN. You can listen to the full interview with Every here or look to YouTube below.
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