This Guy’s Clubs Were Completely Destroyed on an International Flight

It’s nothing new for golfers to be wary of checking their clubs for a flight to their vacation destination because you never know what can happen. As was shown by many professionals’ experiences last year, airlines have a tendency to lose golf clubs on connecting flights and for others, it isn’t uncommon for clubs to emerge with dings and scratches.

But the damage one man experienced on a recent international flight is beyond a nightmare.

The unlucky traveler had come from Ireland to the United States for a golfing trip that went off without a hitch. After a lengthy stay be headed back to Ireland and that’s when the trouble began.

Upon retrieving his clubs, he found them to be in absolutely awful condition. Looking at the pictures, you might even think the bag may have fallen out of the plane!

As a guess how much would the following cost to fix and replace?
1 x Cobra head and veylix shaft
1 x 3 wood veylix shaft
1 tour ad hybrid shaft
1 broom handle putter
1 Sw steel shaft
1 strong arm
1 travel bag
thank @delta for handling clubs #discraceful
2nd time in 2yrs pic.twitter.com/fQO8LsBCw8

— Concierge Golf IRL (@ConciergegolfIE) March 27, 2019

Upon inspection, it appears that almost all of his clubs had been snapped at the shaft, whether that be near the handle, near the club head, or just about anywhere in between.

On top of that, the club faces and heads have chips and cracks in them. And the stick that is placed in the bag to avoid these types of disasters was snapped as well!

Hard to imagine the type of force required to cause this much damage and needless to say the customer was very upset. 

To the credit of the airline, Delta Airlines reached out to the customer over Twitter to try and remedy the problem. Delta does seem sincere in their efforts to figure out what happened to this man’s clubs and has offered to look into the issue further.

Whether or not he’ll be compensated for the damage remains unknown but at least Delta is attempting to take some responsibility here.

Cover Image via Twitter