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Robert Allenby fires caddie midway through first round in Canada

Add another line to Robert Allenby’s forgettable PGA Tour season. The year began with a reported mugging and robbery at the Sony Open in Hawaii and Thursday at the RBC Canadian Open, it continued with a caddie altercation.

Allenby hit his approach to the par-5 13th at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario way short. Allenby’s caddie Mick Middlemo had suggested an 8-iron, which Allenby used even though he had initially wanted to hit a 7-iron. It resulted in a triple bogey.

That’s when things got heated, according to a story on scoregolf.com.

“I said to him, ‘You know this happens every week.