Dave Portnoy put the “morons” at the PGA Tour on blast as they messed with his bottom line.
The RBC Heritage had to be suspended until Monday morning due to darkness following a lengthy delay stemming from lightning in South Carolina.
Masters champion Scottie Scheffler ultimately won the event upon its resumption Monday.
That delay seemingly irked Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, since he placed a $100,000 two-leg parlay featuring Scheffler winning the tournament that would net him roughly $1.59 million.
With Scheffler leading the pack entering Sunday, Portnoy teed off on the PGA Tour for a move that potentially could have cost him six figures.
“The @PGATOUR f–ks everything up,” Portnoy tweeted Sunday night at 6:10 p.m. ET during the delay. “Are they the only morons on the planet without a weather forecast? How do you not move up tee times today? Pure unadulterated incompetence.”
Portnoy seems to have a point with this one.
The PGA Tour posted on its website that Sunday could include “a little bit of weather late in the day,” highlighting increased odds of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening, along with “gusty winds (potentially reaching 20-25 MPH) and heavy rainfall.”
The website even had a graphic showcasing the poor weather that could be on its way.
Scheffler, who entered the day leading the field, and Sepp Straka were scheduled for the final tee time at 1:55 p.m. ET, which pushed up against the window for when the bad weather would start.
Well, apparently the Good Lord wanted to disrupt the best game of their lives, as play had to be suspended at 4:28 p.m. ET on Sunday with groups yet to finish their final rounds.
Scheffler had just started the 12th hole and led the field by four strokes at the time.
“We were hoping to play through this; we felt like we had another 25 minutes left of this heavy rain and were then going to get a break on the back end,” Mark Dusbabek, the PGA Tour’s senior director lead TV Rules & Video Analyst, said on the CBS broadcast, as transcribed by pgatour.com. “We had lightning unfortunately pop up four miles away; just suddenly caught us in, so we had to stop play for this. We’re going to see how things go here and make a decision.
“The course was not unplayable. It wasn’t because of the rain. It was just because the lightning popped up.”
The PGA Tour announced at roughly 5:30 p.m. ET that play would resume at 6 p.m., only to provide an update approximately 15 minutes later that play would not begin at the time.
Portnoy first sounded off on X shortly after 6 p.m.
“This rain delay in the RBC is a DISASTER. You know Scottie doesn’t want to be there,” Portnoy tweeted.
He later posted: “Can the @PGATOUR call a tournament like a baseball game?”
The biggest threat to a Scheffler victory was his vow to leave any tournament if his wife Meredith goes into the labor as the couple is expecting their first child in the coming weeks.
That storyline dominated at Augusta last week as Scheffler rolled to a victory in the first major of the season.
Rounds resumed at 7 p.m. ET but the good vibes didn’t last long as play at Harbour Town Golf Links had to stop due to darkness at 7:45 p.m. ET.
Portnoy bashed that decision while using a hashtag featuring PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan.
“So we get to play for 15 minutes? Hey dummies can you address why you didn’t tee off 2 hours earlier? #PGATour #idiots #monahan,” he posted.
Scheffler had one of his few hiccups of the tournament when play resumed, hitting his second shot on 15 into the water.
However, he was still able to make par on the par 5 by knocking a wedge to 11 feet and rolling in the putt.
“So #scottie hit a ‘mud ball’ into the water? I hope the idiots at the @PGATOUR are happy with the mockery they’ve made out of this. Coulda just started earlier but nope. #morons,” he posted.
Scheffler had completed 15 holes and led the field by five, with the PGA Tour all but saying he had wrapped up a victory.
“Scheffler’s final three holes could be a formality,” the website read.
Play resumed Monday at 8 a.m. and Scheffler won by finishing 19-under par.
Portnoy finally could relax.
He posted: “Scottie Scheffler may be my favorite athlete of all time. #thankyouscottie.”
The other half of the parlay — the Celtics to win the NBA title — got off to a good start with Boston dominating the Heat, 114-94, in Game 1 on Sunday afternoon.
Boston is the No. 1 seed in the East and the favorite to win the title after a dominant 64-18 regular season.