U.S. Open spectators arrested after fracas with caddie
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Two spectators were arrested during the U.S. Open second round on Friday after becoming embroiled in a scuffle with Australian Adam Scott's caddie.
According to a San Diego police spokesman, the spectators heckled world number three Scott and his caddie Tony Navarro on the par-five ninth hole at Torrey Pines.
Navarro ducked under the ropes that keep fans off the course to confront the pair, a father and his son. After a brief physical exchange, Phil Mickelson's caddie Jim 'Bones' Mackay intervened to help Navarro.
The two spectators, who had earlier distracted Australian Stuart Appleby on the adjacent 18th tee, were eventually led away by San Diego police.
"They were being a little loud and a little rude," world number one Tiger Woods told reporters of the two fans after carding a three-under-par 68.
Woods played the first two rounds at Torrey Pines in the company of Scott and fellow American Mickelson.
"Stuey is over there on 18 trying to tee off and Tony (Navarro) is trying to make sure that he (Appleby) doesn't have these guys yelling on his swing," Woods added. "They didn't like that very much."
(Editing by Alastair Himmer)
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