The Open Championship starts soon, and Graham DeLaet just got his clubs

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - FEBRUARY 22: Graham DeLaet of Canada tees off on the sixth hole during the Final Round of the Northern Trust Open at the Riviera Country Club on February 22, 2015 in Pacific Palisades, California. (Photo by Todd Warshaw/Getty Images) ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — And you thought your lost-luggage story was bad.

Imagine a NASCAR driver without his steering wheel. An NFL player without his helmet. A baseball player without his bat. Now you’re getting an idea of the teeth-grinding agony that Graham DeLaet went through for more than two days waiting for his clubs to arrive.

Thankfully for DeLaet, the clubs arrived just two days before he was scheduled to tee off at St. Andrews. At long last:

54 hours later…my babies have arrived! Time to get to work! pic.twitter.com/qSnmimQgZz

— Graham DeLaet (@GrahamDeLaet) July 14, 2015

Aer Lingus had lost the clubs, and DeLaet had to hit the equipment trucks in order to come up with at least a partially workable set. He also took to Twitter to vent his frustration at not being able to play with his own clubs, and Twitter being Twitter, the clowns piled out of the circus tent:

@Jeff_Gulley @rayferrarotsn do “regular” people have a job worth a potential $ 1.8 million this week? It’s a little different…sorry

— Graham DeLaet (@GrahamDeLaet) July 13, 2015

Painful sidelight: this isn’t the first time this has happened to DeLaet this year. United lost his clubs on the way to the Honda Classic. Dude, it might be time to start dressing your clubs like a kid and buying them their own seat.

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