American golfer Billy Horschel intervened to lend a hand take away protesters who invaded the seventeenth inexperienced at Royal Liverpool on the second one day of the Open Championship.
The 36-year-old escorted a lady dressed in a Just Stop Oil T-shirt lined in orange paint off the golf green of the Hoylake hyperlinks and into the custody of a police officer. According to experiences, orange powder have been dropped onto the seventeenth hollow.
Both her and a person dressed in a identical T-shirt had been each handcuffed and marched off the route by means of a number of cops. The protest is the most recent of a chain of incursions at prime profile wearing occasions this 12 months.
Earlier this month 3 other people made it onto courtroom 18 at Wimbledon, showering the grass with orange confetti and items of a jigsaw puzzle. During the Ashes Test at Lord’s, a protestor used to be got rid of from the sphere of play by means of the England wicketkeeper, Jonny Bairstow. Earlier within the 12 months play on the World Snooker Championships used to be not on time after a person launched powdered orange paint into the Crucible and sat kneeling on a baize desk.
On Wednesday ahead of the match began, Martin Slumbers, the executive government of the R&A which hosts the Open, had stated the frame had gained “no direct intelligence” of conceivable protest and had insisted there have been “significant security procedures” in position to prevent invaders.
“We work clearly with the law enforcement agencies and we’ll wait and see what happens”, Slumbers stated. “You will have seen that we advised the players, ‘Please don’t get involved’ and I stand by that. We have enough things in place to be able to deal with it. Beyond that, I think security matters I need to keep confidential.
Police have also seized a drone at Royal Liverpool after it was flown into restricted airspace above the course on Thursday.
A Merseyside police statement said: “We were made aware of a drone being flown in the restricted airspace and officers were able to locate the operator and subsequently seize the drone and remind them of the restrictions.”
Chief Superintendent Mark Wiggins, in charge of the policing operation for the event, warned further prosecution was an option if there were further incidents.
“If you commit an offense and fly a drone within the restricted area without permission, your equipment may be seized and you may render yourself liable to prosecution,” he stated.