Despite a four-putt encouraged partly by the eternal fragility of his putting stroke, but mostly by a daft pin position, Sergio García refused to join the baying mob gathered outside the tournament office.
On Friday afternoon, before leaving the office for the tournament, Costello stops by Linda's desk and asks for help.
And indeed, during an interview in his office on the tournament grounds, Flory acknowledged it was not his original strategy.
To be safe, Smith also asks that an intern from the United States Tennis Association occasionally provide an official printout from the tournament office.
After the incident, he was seen in the office of the tournament director, Craig Tiley, supposedly being kept up to date on developments.
The lack of women's tournament office pools, however, means the guy slicing your roast beef knows nothing about how good UConn is.
The men's and women's clubhouses and the tournament office are trailers, and the players' lounge is a white plastic tent with two couches settled into the gravel-filled ground.
A survey of 1,500 small businesses by the software developer Sage found that only 20% of firms had taken steps to prevent staff absenteeism during England's games, with measures such as introducing a TV to the office during the tournament.
At the same time, tournament offices might require a phone bank to answer all of the calls about potential violations.
The website had several interactions with Buckner & Garcia, creators of "Pac-Man Fever" in 2011, starting in June when Giant Bomb ran an in-office Pac-Man tournament on Thursday Night Throwdown.
