Golf crowds usually adhere to a stricter standard than fans at most other sporting events, but that standard slipped badly at this week’s BMW Championship. A video making the rounds from Bellerive Country Club shows just how far tournament security will go when a spectator crosses that line, and it’s reignited a conversation golf has been having for years about how its galleries behave.

Golf commentator Scott Puryear was there when it happened and spoke about it on X. He didn’t mince words about the type of behavior he believes led to the ejection.

“Spent two days at Bellerive for the @BMWchamps earlier this week … and thank God I wasn’t near one of the idiots who feels the need to scream ‘Let It Rip’ or ‘Boom-Shakalaka’ or some other ridiculous thing right after one of the pro’s tee shots. Because I’m afraid they might have been also carrying me out like this …”

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Along with his tweet, Puryear shared a clip showing a group of officers working in a coordinated fashion to physically remove a fan from the grounds near a tree-lined section of the course. Several uniformed officers crowded around a single individual on the grass, which stands in stark contrast to the buttoned-up decorum golf tournaments typically project.

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Puryear confirmed in a reply to a comment on his post that the individual was a woman, noting the incident happened Thursday and that, according to friends who witnessed it, the chase started in the stands before she ran across the fairway and into the rough. Puryear jokingly pinned it on the tournament’s $18 beverages, adding that it was “a whole new definition of ‘hazard’ at a pro golf tournament.”

This isn’t an isolated flashpoint. The rise of shouted catchphrases after tee shots, from “Get in the hole” to “Mashed potatoes” and now apparently “Let It Rip,” has become a recurring irritant for players, purists, and fellow spectators alike. Tour professionals have voiced frustration at press conferences for years about the timing and volume of these outbursts, which can break concentration mid-swing on shots worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money.

What makes this one stand out is how far it went. Most fan run-ins at tour events end with a stern word or a quiet walk to the exit gate. This one ended with four officers physically wrangling someone off the property—shocking—which says something about how seriously Bellerive’s security team is taking crowd control this week, especially with FedEx Cup Playoff cameras rolling and a lot riding on the tournament’s image.

It’s hard to know exactly what tips a situation like this from “watch it” to “get her out,” although the tweet suggests that the woman was shouting during a shot. All the footage confirms is the outcome: four guards physically carrying her off the property. It doesn’t confirm what led up to that moment, whether warnings were given, or the reasoning behind the decision.

Bellerive still has two rounds left this week, and moments like this shape how the rest of the crowd behaves. Whether that means more visible security, quicker hooks on unruly fans, or just louder reminders over the PA system remains to be seen. Either way, this clip has already become the week’s cautionary tale, the story every fan at the next tee box will have heard before they even show up.