Jim Furyk was disqualified from The Barclays for Oversleeping on Wednesday, August 25th and arriving late, missing his Pro-Am check in time.

Shotgun start was at 7:30am. Furyk arrived at the course at 7:35am and tour officials had no choice but to disqualify him in the first of four FedEx Cup playoff events.

He set the alarm on his phone before going to bed the night before and the battery died whilst he slept. He woke up at 7:23am, threw on some clothes and bolted out the door, arriving at the event with no belt or socks with his shoes untied. I wonder if he had time for that mandatory early morning emptying of the bladder, if not, in addition to showing up disheveled, we can probably add doing the pee-pee dance.

The PGA Tour adopted its disqualification policy on pro-ams in 2004 after some players began skipping the Wednesday events for without giving suitiable reasons. Now, players are automatically disqualified from the tournament if they miss the pro-am, with the exception of injury or family emergency.

“I’m kicking myself, I have a way of climbing into situations that are all my fault.”

Although he said he was upset about not playing Ridgewood or the tournament, Furyk said the worst part of the disqualification was “to possibly, severely hurt a good year.”

“I played my heart out all year, I’ve got no one to blame but myself.”

All things considered though, it’s a pretty impressive feat that he managed to get there in 12 minutes..

This is the ONLY reason I couldn’t play professional golf, I have a propensity to oversleep, I think it’s genetic.. Ok, ok, so perhaps I embellished, it’s not the ONLY reason.. there’s this whole lack of skill that also gets in the way..

What do you think? Considering that Jim Furyk was only a couple minutes late and the fact that it is a Pro-Am and not an actual day of Barclay tournament play, should they have let this slide?