Australian professional Greg Chalmers has spent his life on the PGA Tour, Oceania’s PGA Tour, DP World Tour and now the PGA Tour Senior Tour. But it is unlikely that experienced veterans will violate his rules as they did this weekend.
Chalmers was disqualified in the final round of Sunday’s 2025 Boeing Classic. Formally, the reason was a violation of unqualified club rules. But the whole story goes far beyond that.
This is what you need to know.
How Greg Chalmers in Boeing Classic
Chalmers started playing in the PGA Tour Australia, and from 1997 to 2014 he won five games, including two Australian Open and two Australian PGA wins.
Although he never dominated the PGA Tour, he did win a professional tour victory in the 2016 Barracuda Championship. His best in a professional was at the T4 at the 2000 PGA Championship won by Tiger Woods.
After turning 50 on October 50, 2023, Chalmers joined the PGA Tour champion in an attempt to relate to the aging legend found there. In his first season, he collected five top ten and added three more games this season.
At the Boeing Classic at the club at Snoqualmie Ridge in Washington last week, Chalmers were under quarters and finished fourth, and achieved solid results. But on the third hole, after a long discussion with the rules officer, he was suddenly disqualified.
After the turn, Chalmers explained what happened. It turns out that when he escaped a buried lying in a bunker, his leaf wedge found an explosive sports club sensor. Chalmers said he thought he had lost the sensor “long ago”, indicating it had been discarded at the bottom of the bag and was accidentally secured to the grip of his Lob wedge.
“There is a weird DQ today. Buried in the third frame Bunker. Grab my leaf wedge and chop it on the green on the other side. I noticed an explosion motion sensor at the end when I put the club back in the bag.
He warned the rule officials when he noticed the crime sensor on the wedge. According to Chalmers, they contacted USGA, who formally believed that Chalmers used a failed club, resulting in disqualification.
Chalmers wrote on X: “Talking with the rules officers, they called @usga and found out that I was a DQ for using a club-incompatible DQ.
