How does a four-time PGA Tour winner take six shots to get out of a bunker?
When Ryan Palmer overshot the par-3 14th green at Riviera on Saturday he will have been eyeing up a sand save. He arrived on the 15th tee with a nine.
What happened was this which Palmer described as follows: “Fatted it up there. It stayed (near the lip). Somehow. Came down. Fatted it. Stayed, somehow. Tried to hit it each time. Came down in a footprint, chopped it out and two-putted.”
The ‘poor guy’ actually needed six shots to escape the sand.
This poor guy… took 5 just to get out of the trap. #badbreak #twoinchesbehindtheball #GenesisInvitational #RyanPalmer #PGATour pic.twitter.com/wy3XT624Nt
— Denise Cubbins (@__DNice) February 15, 2020
Two putts from 11 feet followed and a sextuple-bogey made its way onto the card.
In the locker room after his 10-over 81 which also included an eagle and two birdies, Palmer said: “I hit it nine times. Anything else? Is it a record or something?”
On the Sunday needless to say Palmer made a birdie two.
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Mark Townsend
Been watching and playing golf since the early 80s and generally still stuck in this period. Huge fan of all things Robert Rock, less so white belts. Handicap of 8, fragile mind and short game
