Tour star left with blood streaming down his face after ‘embarrassing’ incident

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Eddie Pepperell said he had 'blood gushing' down his face at the Nexo Championship.

Eddie Pepperell has opened up about his ‘darkest moment of the last year’ during the Nexo Championship…

Despite enjoying a solid week on the DP World Tour, Eddie Pepperell let his anger get the better of him after a disappointing final nine holes at the Nexo Championship in Scotland.

The Englishman, who has struggled for form over the last few seasons, found himself inside the top five at the Trump International Golf Links before four bogeys in his last seven holes saw him tumble down the leaderboard.

It all reached boiling point after his tee shot on the par-3 13th, which resulted in a bogey that dropped him to over par for the day.

But the Pepperell has never been one to shy away from his foibles, and speaking on The Chipping Forecast podcast the 34-year-old said: “I know we’ve spoken about the darkness and anger that’s been within me of late and I think it crescendoed and I had quite an embarrassing moment because I made a bogey and scraped my pencil so hard down my face that I left myself with a three-inch gash and I had blood streaming down my face on that green.

“That was probably the darkest and most embarrassing moment of yesterday’s round and indeed of the last year – to have to be wiping blood off my face for five minutes.”

Pepperell made his third bogey in a row on the 14th before dropping another shot at his penultimate hole, undoing a lot of the good work he had done to that point.

To his credit, he birdied the 18th to get back to level par for the week and finish in a tie for 10th but left the venue with obvious concerns about how he is struggling to manage what he has previously described as the “little monster” in his head.

“I’m having a hard time accepting the amount of good shots I’m hitting,” Pepperell added. “There is still the odd really bad shot in there that is leaving me highly frustrated and I’m playing with not very much confidence.

“All of that culminates to me just feeling very frustrated and easily irked and deeply angry. I mean, the level of sadism is worrying. That I would say, being brutally honest.

“On the flip side, there were lots of positives in the game.”

Pepperell has only recently returned to DP World Tour action after a self-enforced break from the game.

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