PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Tyrrell Hatton promised that there would be quite the celebration on Sunday night after winning his first PGA Tour title at the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one stroke over Marc Leishman.
“I don’t think I’ll be in any fit state,” Hatton said on Sunday, “at least until Wednesday.”
And Hatton proved to be good to his word.
“I’m still quite tired, to be honest,” Hatton said ahead of the Players Championship on Wednesday. “I was cuddling the toilet by 5 in the morning, so it was a good night.”
At his winner’s press conference Sunday, Hatton noted that he likely would remove the winner’s red alpaca sweater to avoid ruining it and alluded to numerous bottles of red wine being consumed. The party was held at Nona Blue, the restaurant and bar part-owned by 2010 U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell, near Lake Nona Golf Club, where Hatton resides while playing the PGA Tour, and went into the wee hours of the morning.
“There was a lot of red wine and then unfortunately I think the finisher was the drinking the vodka and tequila out of the bottle, which never kind of ends well,” he said. “And, yeah, I fell victim of that, definitely.”
There were also a few more colorful details learned about Hatton, including the unusual spelling of his name.
“Well, it’s my granddad’s middle name is kind of where it comes from,” he explained. “My parents that play golf, they liked the film ‘Caddyshack’ and obviously the guy was, I think was it Ty, I think, so that’s how they kind of got my name. But in terms of the spelling, over here it would be normally Ty-rell, wouldn’t it? But I ain’t no Ty-rell, so yeah.”
As for his affinity for playing X-Box, which he highlights in his Twitter profile and said he spent most of his down time after getting out of a cast for right-wrist surgery, Hatton revealed that Call of Duty is his jam.
“So I’m actually devastated that the new War Zone game’s come out,” he said. “It was released yesterday, and I’m not going to get to play it for another few weeks. So that’s cut me deep.”
