Hockey fight breaks out on a golf course in viral clip appearing to feature ex-NHL enforcer

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On the golf course, there are few things more annoying than fellow golfers that are taking too much time when playing ahead of you.

It’s even worse when they might have had a bit too much to drink and become stubborn and argumentative.

But in a clip that has gone viral on social media, one player exhibiting all of those irksome traits messed around a bit too much and found out the hard way that perhaps they need to rethink their on-course behaviour.

And the person that they squared off with clearly had some previous experience, handling themselves as if they’ve dropped the gloves more than a few times on the ice.

The two-and-half-minute long clip, which was posted to reddit by user YEGG35, shows the argument beginning with a large man in a white shirt arguing with two other golfers off to the side of a tee box on a cart path.

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The man in white accuses the two men in front of him – one in a black-and-white patterned shirt and shorts, the other in a light shirt and a hat – of taking far too much time to tee off at the hole.

“Let’s get going,” the large man is heard saying to the two, “Or you can play behind us all and you can take all the f****** time you want.”

The cameraman then insinuated that the other two have perhaps had too much to drink.

“You guys can’t even stand and tee your ball up,” he says as the man in the patterned shirt approaches the tee box, appearing to struggle to place his ball.

“This is f****** bulls***,” the large man is heard saying. “He’s been sitting there for 23 minutes!”

That’s when the man in the tee box seemingly gets triggered, standing up and walking towards the group and telling them to “Go cry about it.”

Insults and threats fly between the man in the patterned shirt and the larger man in white before the first golfer charges at him.

WARNING: Language

It doesn’t end well for the slow player, who ends up being easily roughed up and tossed into a nearby water hazard.

After he gets back up, he again comes at his foe to disastrous results.

The man in white grabs him by the shirt and lands two punches to his face – yelling “bang!” for dramatic effect as he sends the first man to the ground.

Seemingly not content with the damage received, the slow golfer stands up and again comes at the large man, only to be greeted by three more punches and three more “bangs.”

After getting back up off the ground again, the larger man then proceeds to toss the first man several feet through the air and down a hill.

At this point, the first man’s friend steps in to keep his buddy from any further suffering.

It is unclear at which golf course the incident occurred, but several commenters believed that the parties involved all were Canadian, judging by their accents.

According to several posts on social media, it’s alleged that the man dishing out the hits is none other than Nick Tarnasky, who played five seasons in the NHL from 2005-10 and racked up 297 penalty minutes in 245 career games with the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers.

According to hockeyfights.com, Tarnasky was involved in more than 100 fights in professional hockey games, including a classic tilt with a young Milan Lucic.