VIDEO. 'No golf on a dead planet': Environmental activists disrupt US PGA Tour tournament with paint

Les militants ont réussi à interrompre le jeu. Capture d'écran X.

En plein tournoi du PGA Tour aux États-Unis, première division mondiale de golf, au moins cinq manifestants écologistes ont interrompu la compétition avec de la peinture avant d’être escorté par la police.

Almost unheard of in the United States, a country largely committed to the cause of golf. While world No.1 Scottie Scheffler and South Korean Tom Kim were preparing to finish the Travelers tournament on hole N.18, several environmental activists entered the course with paint to interrupt the game.

At least five of them managed to do it, spraying paint on the green of the last hole of the Cromwell course, in Connecticut.

🚨🎨🛢️#WATCH: Multiple Just Stop Oil protesters STORM the 18th green at TPC River Highlands (via @SchefflerLegion)pic.twitter.com/qtcwVBAoj9

— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) June 23, 2024

Escorted manu militari by the police

All before being expelled from the course without gentleness by the local police, who escorted everyone to the boos of the American public present on site.

On a video taken at the scene, we can see the phrase "No golf on a dead planet", written on the T-shirts of the demonstrators.

Just Stop Oil protestors getting escorted off the 18th green https://t.co/p7yxtGpBID

— Fore Play (@ForePlayPod) June 23, 2024

After several minutes of waiting where the course staff managed to erase the paint, play was able to resume. Scottie Scheffler then won in the Travelers play-offs.