First things first, Jager Pain is a talented Canadian junior golfer with an amazing name. But what he did after a recent tournament is what really caught our attention.
Pain was playing in the 102nd Ontario Junior Boys Championship at Otter Creek Golf Club last Thursday—and playing quite well. After an opening 66 on Monday, Pain was in line for a wire-to-wire win in the four-round event until disaster struck on the 72nd hole.
At nine under par for the week, a double bogey on the closing par 5 would have won him the tournament. Instead, he walked away with a stunning quintuple-bogey 10 to lose the tournament by two shots to Gabriel Mainella. Ouch.
Pain took to Instagram and acknowledged that, well, pain. But he also didn’t make any excuses for his late stumble, thanked the course and tournament volunteers, and congratulated his opponent with this classy, mature message shared by Flagstick.com Golf:
We couldn’t agree more. That would be an impressive reaction by a grizzled PGA Tour pro, let alone a kid who won’t graduate high school for another two years.
Great stuff, Jager. May the golf gods smile back at you for many decades to come.
