Golf is known as a serene game while Canadians are famously polite and friendly, but neither generalization is entirely true.
Take Monday’s incident at the Two Eagles Golf Course in West Kelowna, British Columbia, about 240 miles east of Vancouver, where two groups of players came to blows over accusations of slow play. The fight grew so intense that one combatant was left with a bloody mouth and a broken jaw, according to online reports.
‘It’s Monday night f***ing golf,’ one angry golfer is heard screaming in the video that has since gone viral. ‘You in a rush? Where you gotta be? You hit it up our a** all day!’
Ostensibly, the two unidentified groups of golfers tangled after the second grew tired of waiting for the first.
As seen in the video footage, members of the first group felt that someone in the second deliberately hit a golf ball in their immediate vicinity – something that is frowned upon as both rude and dangerous.
‘What is wrong with you?’ an exasperated woman in the first group asked the second.
Two groups came to blows over accusations of slow play at a course in British Columbia
One combatant ultimately lost his shirt before having his mouth bloodied and jaw broken
A member of the other group didn’t hesitate to respond: ‘I’ll tell you what’s wrong. He’s been taking four and a half hours. Way too f***ing long.’
‘Grow the f*** up,’ the woman shot back. ‘You don’t hit into people, mother***er!’
But the real low point of the viral video came when two men began exchanging punches until one lost his shirt before being knocked to the grass on a jab to the mouth.
‘Do you want to f*** around?’ one angry man could be heard yelling at the other.
‘You wanna go mother***er?’ the other responded. ‘You gonna hit me? You get one shot and then see what happens.’
The woman recording the action tried in vain to stop the violence, first by suggesting her male companion ‘step in and deescalate.’
She then asked the two warring sides to ‘take it down a notch.’
Of course, nobody listened.
But the ordeal is not quite over. Royal Canadian Mounted Police told KelownaNow.com that all parties have been identified amid an ongoing investigation.
‘We’ve viewed the cell phone video of the incident and it’s nothing short of unacceptable behavior,’ staff sergeant Brendan Dolan told the outlet. Authorities will refrain from commenting until they ‘look into this matter,’ Dolan added.