ALLENBY A BULLY IN CLEATS, CADDIE SAYS

day after Robert Allenby fired his caddie mid-round and had a school principal from Kingston, Ont., carry his bag the rest of the way, the dismissed caddie gave his side of the story.

Mick Middlemo told ESPN that there was never a disagreement about which club to use on the fourth hole, and that Allenby simply hit a poor shot into the water, after which he called the caddie a “fat (expletive)” loud enough that the gallery overheard. Middlemo, an Australian like Allenby, said the player had crossed a line.

Fox Sports Australia says this is fourth time a caddie has walked off the course on Allenby. “He likes to bully caddies,” Middlemo told Fox Sports.

“You couldn’t get away with that in any workplace in the

You couldn’t get away with that in any workplace in the world

world, but somehow he thinks it ’s appropriate on a golf course.”

Allenby told ScoreGolf on Thursday that his former caddie had threatened him after the confrontation, and the player withdrew from the Canadian Open.

As the coup de grâce, Middlemo suggested that Allenby’s much-publicized mugging in Hawaii might not have been as the player described, after all. In January the player told police he had been beaten and robbed after a dinner out — the caddie was in attendance — but followup reports speculated that Allenby might have injured himself in a fall, possibly after drinking.

“I just wish it had never gone this far,” Middlemo told ESPN. “But again he is using the media to make himself look like the victim.”