Jack Floydd, this week at the Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge, walked over 28,000 yards worth of course.

And he rode a train about 400 miles. 

“Very eventful, yeah,” he said. 

In the end, Floydd tied for 44th at the event on the HotelPlanner Tour, the circuit below the DP World Tour. But the events that got him to that point were, as he said, “eventful.” After two rounds, he had been at even par at Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil golf course in Le Vaudreuil, France, and, believing his week was done, the Englishman boarded the bullet train back home. 

Of course, this site probably wouldn’t be writing about a basic missed cut. 

“Literally, we got wedged in on the train when we knew we were sort of going to make the cut,” Floydd told the HotelPlanner Tour’s social media team. 

“So we just had to go to England because there’s no way we could get out. And then we got off, we literally got onto the motorway, did a U-ey at the first junction and back to France.”

From there, he returned to France at about 1 a.m. on Saturday, and he was able to rebook a room at the hotel where he had been staying. “They had rooms available so I went straight back and checked back in,” Floydd told the HotelPlanner Tour. 

“So yeah, been a bit crazy.”

During his third round on Saturday, things started rough, with double bogeys on his second and fifth holes and a bogey on his sixth, before he played four-under golf from there. Floydd followed that one-over round with a two-under 70 during Sunday’s final round, which included a pair of eagles — a three on a par-5, and a hole in one on a par-3. 

Is Floydd the first golfer to misjudge his fate? Of course not. Memorably, Bryson DeChambeau thought he, too, had missed the cut at the 2021 Wells Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour, and in his case, he flew from Charlotte, N.C., to his home in Dallas — only to fly back early the next morning.   

DeChambeau ended up finishing tied for ninth. 

“It was worth it. It no doubt was worth it,” he told ESPN at the time. “That’s what I was hoping to do this weekend when I was on that plane at 2:45 a.m. [Saturday]. Yeah, I wanted to make it worth it. I didn’t want to come out here and finish 60-whatever, close to last.” 

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