A golfer who was caught up in a climate change protest that disrupted the end of a PGA tournament in the US has said he was 'scared for my life'. Akshay Bhatia was finishing his final round of the Travellers Championship in Connecticut, alongside Scottie Scheffler and Tom Kim, when Extinction Rebellion activists stormed the 18th green, spraying coloured smoke and powder.
'That can be a stressful situation, and you would hate for the tournament to end on something weird happening because of a situation like that.' Extinction Rebellion blamed climate change for an electrical storm that injured two people at a home near the course on Saturday, telling the AP news agency it was 'due to increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather conditions'. 'Golf, more than other events, is heavily reliant on good weather.