It’s hard enough trying to make it at the highest levels of pro golf. It’s pretty much impossible to do so without golf clubs.
Thorbjorn Olesen, who has won five times on the European tour, has endured a tough 10 days. He claims that his primary golf clubs were lost by British Airways last week, presumably before the PGA Championship at Bellerive.
Olesen still made the cut and finished T56 at the year’s final major. That’s when Olesen’s story goes from unlucky to unbelievable.
On Tuesday Olesen hauled what he called “his only backup set of clubs” onto another British Airways flight, this one bound for the Euro tour’s Nordea Masters. Incredibly, the airline lost Olesen’s backup set, too, along with “5 suitcases.” You can see Olesen’s tweet about the misadventure below.
So the comedy continues, @British_Airways have managed to now lose 5 suitcases and 2 sets of golf clubs in 10 days!
Decided to bring my only backup set of clubs on this morning's flight to the Nordea Masters in case my other lost set don't arrive and BA have also now lost these! pic.twitter.com/V6QPXzAaBk
— Thorbjørn Olesen (@Thorbjornolesen) August 14, 2018
Losing golf clubs on a flight is a fairly routing travel hazard for pro golfers. With all the flying they do to compete internationally, it’s bound to happen occasionally. But Olesen’s woeful tale is something else entirely.
Olesen is currently ranked No. 41 in the world and sixth in the European Ryder Cup rankings.
