Overview

• On July 4 at Alberta Springs Golf Course in Red Deer, former NHL enforcer Nick Tarnasky shoved a visibly intoxicated golfer into a pond before landing a series of punches.
• The clip, first posted on July 8, has amassed more than 1.3 million views on X and attracted comments from public figures including Stevan Ridley and Trey Wingo.
• Canadian police say they arrived at around 5:47 p.m. local time after reports of an intoxicated instigator but found no one on scene and made no arrests.
• Tarnasky has remained silent and has not issued any public statement about his involvement in the altercation.
• The brawl underscores the potential for routine pace-of-play disagreements to turn violent and for captured footage to spread rapidly online.