Ian Poulter’s 3-year-old scolds ‘bad daddy’ for shanking his way out of Honda Classic

Ian Poulter has beaten himself up for blowing a three-shot lead he took into the final round of the Honda Classic, but when his three-year-old took him to task for going all shankapotamous at PGA National, that’s gotta hurt.

Poulter’s disappearing act happened suddenly and in stunning fashion. He began the Monday-finishing finale looking as if he would finally win his first stroke-play event on U.S. soil but proceeded to rinse, douse, drown, and otherwise deep-six his chances by finding every water hazard he could on the Champion Course.

He lost two balls into ponds through the seven holes he got in on Sunday before darkness suspended the already weather-delayed tournament. By the time he limped off the course Monday with a closing 4-over 74 that left him a shot out of the Padraig Harrington-Daniel Berger playoff and netted him a T3, Poulter had splashed three more shots.

While Joshua could have been taunting his dad about any number of shots, he may have been referring to Sunday’s shanked 8-iron on the 217-yard par-3 fifth. After all, there were trees involved when the shocking hosel rocket not seen from a PGA Tour pro since Tiger Woods’ hideous chipping display traveled some 155 yards dead right, hit a cart path, and bounced into a water hazard seemingly not an issue on that hole.

A double-bogey ensued on the par-4 11th on Monday after another approach shot located water.

Adding the proverbial insult to injury, Poulter notched a triple-bogey 7 on the 14th after hitting both his tee and approach shots into the same hazard.

“It’s a shame,” Poulter said after his disastrous day at the office. “There’s lots of pluses with how I’ve played all week, but there’s nothing like handing the golf tournament away. It makes you feel pretty sick.”

Poulter will have little time to lick his wounds and get back to it, as he has a 1:01 p.m. ET tee time with Keegan Bradley and Charl Schwartzel Thursday at Doral to kick off the WGC-Cadillac Championship.