Never-ending Matt Kuchar saga takes another bizarre turn

At this point, the Matt Kuchar saga is the gift that keeps giving. Two weeks ago the veteran golfer, who has won nine times throughout his career, saw his remarkable FedEx Cup streak come to an end at the regular season-finale Wyndham Championship in North Carolina. Kuchar had made the FedEx Cup Playoffs every year since its inception in 2007 and came into the final regular season event knowing that a win would extend his incredible run for another year. Ultimately, it wasn't to be this time for Kuchar who made headlines not for his play on the course but for a bizarre decision he made.

The majority of the field concluded their tournament after a long final day which saw most playing 36 holes of golf to get the tournament concluded in a timely fashion. Everyone, except for Matt Kuchar that is. The veteran pro caused quite a stir on social media after stopping his round on the final hole before coming back out for a Monday finish. The only player amongst those who had made the cut to make that decision. While he was well within his rights to do so, it was a strange choice nonetheless.

Kuchar watched on as playing partner Max Greyserman saw what was once a four-shot advantage at the top of the leaderboard evaporate on one hole after the talented young player had made an unfortunate quadruple bogey on the 14th hole. Greyserman had a chance to force a playoff heading to the final hole but Aaron Rai birdied in the group ahead to seal a remarkable come-from-behind win at Greyserman's expense.

After the round, Kuchar explained his bizarre decision to stop and come back the next day to Golf Channel's Todd Lewis stating that he '"was trying to set an example for Max".

“We were so far past when we should’ve stopped playing [given the light]. We saw what Max did on hole 16; they should’ve blown the horn there. I feel bad, the poor kid should’ve won this tournament. By me not playing, it may show Max he has an important shot to hit,” Kuchar added at the time. Greyserman and the other member of the trio, Chad Ramey, elected to finish the final hole after witnessing Rai make birdie to seal the win. Kuchar came back the following morning to conclude his tournament.

Greyserman left puzzled by Matt Kuchar comments

Ahead of this week's BMW Championship, Max sat down with Barstool Sports' Dan Rapaport who asked him about Kuchar's comments at the Wyndham Championship and if the two had spoken at the time.

What Greyserman had to say only makes the whole ordeal even more bizarre. "No, not at all," Greyserman said. "He didn't say anything to me. To be honest, I'm not really sure why he said that in his post-round press conference."

The 29-year-old would go on to explain the situation when they arrived at the 18th tee box describing it as so dark that they couldn't see down the hill to make out Rai's group in the fairway. In a hurry and without being able to see the group ahead, Kuchar struck his tee shot while the group in front was still standing in the middle of the fairway. Thankfully, nobody was hit by the wayward shot off the tee. While Max and Ramey decided to finish after seeing Rai make birdie up on the green, Kuchar elected to still come back in the morning.

Max added in the interview with Rapaport that he had no idea why Kuchar said what he said after the round. "I'm like I don't really know why. Again, he never said anything to me. Not sure why he said that in the media. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I think he needed TIO relief. Again, benefit of the doubt. It was going to be going to take a lot of time, which is fine. For him to come out and say that he was trying to do something in service to me or something like that, I thought that was pretty strange," he added.

Truth be told, we may never have any clearer understanding of what unfolded at the Wyndham Championship. Listening to Max, it certainly seems as though Kuchar had his reasons for making the decisions he made and that none of it had to do with Max. Whatever the case may be, this one will go down as one of the stranger events of the season.