Lexi Thompson Forgetting Passport Affects 40 Other Pros’ Clubs Arriving

Lexi Thompson is having another rough go of it this season with more missed cuts and citing more exhaustion. Another pisser was when she forgot that her passport was left in her golf bag. Normally, that’s no big whoop but her clubs were traveling to the Women’s British Open — along with nearly 40 other players’ via Ian Hunter’s trailer.

This is when it got interesting as GolfChannel.com’s Randall Mell reports.

She left her passport in one of the golf bags that were on the truck I was driving here,” Wright said. “I had to stop and wait for her caddie to come and retrieve it.”

Wright estimates he was carrying the clubs and luggage of 38 players, including Ariya Jutanugarn, Nelly Korda, Carlotta Ciganda and Anna Nordqvist. Most of the players waiting were looking to play practice rounds on Monday. He arrived five to six hours later than planned, so late that when he finally showed up, Woburn wasn’t allowing players to begin any more practice rounds in order for the grounds staff to get on the course to make preparations. The range, however, was open until 7 p.m.

Wright said he left France a little after 8 p.m. Sunday and was about two hours out of Evian, about 45 minutes out of Geneva, when he got a call informing him that Thompson’s passport was on his truck.

“I think I might have screamed,” Wright said. “I had to drive through the night to get here.”

While waiting for Lexi’s caddie to arrive, Wright said he unpacked half the truck looking for Lexi’s bag.“That van was packed to the hilt,” Wright said. “A mouse couldn’t have found room to live in there.”

Fellow player Ryan O’Toole was less than pleased.

O’Toole wasn’t happy that yet another day of preparation for a major has been lost to her.

“I don’t know why the driver would agree to accommodate one person knowing it would punish about a third of the field,” O’Toole said. “The driver should have said, ‘Hey, I’ve got to get these clubs to Woburn. If you want the passport, somebody’s going to have to fly there to get it and bring it back.’”

It’s hard to disagree with her.