I didn’t expect former Masters champion Adam Scott’s reaction to Rory McIlroy throwing a club into the water on day two of the WGC -Cadillac Championship to result in such a personal challenge.

But that’s just exactly what transpired here at Trump National Doral with my conversation with Adam after his second round.

Here’s a transcript of the interview.

Qn:    Adam?  I guess you can understand in this game someone gets so frustrated as Rory was that you would throw a club?

Adam:  “Of course, yes.  It is the most frustrating game ever.”

Qn:   Are you surprised to learn Rory threw a club into the water?

Adam:  “No, as I think we’ve all done it.  It’s always a shock the first time you see it and it’s just a brutal game. Don’t you think so Bernie and I’m sure you’ve thrown a club before. Haven’t you Bernie?”

Bernie:  “F*** yes!  All the time (laughing and with Adam and also others).  And Adam?  I do have an Irish background.”

Your author in calmer surrounds and with 2013 Masters winner Adam Scott.

Adam:  “I threw a club about four years ago back at home in Australia and I wasn’t even playing in a match”.

Qn:   How did you feel after throwing the club?

Adam:  “It felt good.”

Qn:  Did you throw it backwards as Tommy Bolt always recommended?

Adam:  “No, actually I was wrong in throwing it back down the hole which was contrary to the advice of Tommy Bolt, but then he had a lot more experience than I have (continuing to smile).

And if the truth be known throwing a club, and in this case a sand-wedge, was very fresh in my mind.

I was competing, or trying to compete, in a recent medal outing at the Craighead Course at Crail Golfing Society, and where I’ve been a member since 20o1, when I tossed a club in anger.

It was on the par three 13th hole and after finding rough way short of the green it took me two shots to get the ball out and when I did it flew left and out-of-bounds.

However in remembering Tommy Bolt’s advice I actually threw the offending club forward only to see the head separate itself from the shaft!

The two pieces of my long-time sand wedge continue to lie in the trunk of my car.

And to be brutally honest I hurled a Callaway X-22 7-iron while playing the ‘lucky’ 7th hole at the nine-hole Pine Cliffs course at Albuferia on Portugal’s Algarve.

I had traveled with very good friends Michael Court, Barry ‘Bazza’ Gentle and Paul Bennett on one of our famed ‘Golfing Trips of a Lifetime’.

After having made a complete mess of the picture postcard par three 6th hole I failed to find the widest fairway on the course at the 7th, and then after a poor second shot I disgracefully hurled my club in disgust and only just managing to miss dear ‘Bazza’.

But in missing ‘Bazza’ unfortunately the club landed high in one of those umbrella trees so common on the Algarve, and to my continued dismay failed to find it’s way back to the ground.

And then in a further example of why the game of golf is called ‘Golf’, I birdied the eighth hole.