In surreal scene, Matt Kuchar finishes PGA Tour tournament alone Monday on empty course

PGA Tour golfer Matt Kuchar completed Wyndham Championship tournament alone on Monday after refusing to finish Sunday night due to darkness.

Early Monday in Greensboro, North Carolina, a lone golfer walked onto the course at Sedgefield Country Club, far from the glitz and glamour of Paris where many of the world’s best were golfing for Olympic gold. No, it wasn’t a recreational golfer out for an early 18 holes; it was nine-time PGA Tour champion Matt Kuchar, the only golfer in the field at the Wyndham Championship who hadn’t finished the tournament on Sunday. Less than 12 hours earlier, Kuchar baffled onlookers when he marked his ball in the 18th rough and walked off the course. In the fading daylight, Kuchar reportedly told the tournament referee that he felt it was too dark to finish the final hole of the tournament and said he was done playing for the day. Kuchar was in a tie for 12th place at the time. His playing partners, Max Greyserman and Chad Ramey, elected to finish their rounds despite the darkening conditions. And so it came to be that Kuchar returned to the course alone Monday morning to play six minutes of golf, finishing the 18th hole to cement his 12th place tie. Greyserman, who had fallen out of the lead after a disastrous quadruple bogey on 14 and a double bogey on 16 dropped him to second place, opted to finish the 18th hole alone. Greyserman made par on the final hole and finished in second place behind tournament winner Aaron Rai, who clinched the championship with a birdie on 18.