Kevin Na warmed the heart of we duffers around the world. He hacked and shanked and thinned and whiffed his way to a 16 on one hole at the Valero Texas Open..
Here is the description from pgatour.com
Na watched his first shot on No. 9 veer badly off course. His next stroke wasn't any better. Or the next one. Or the 11 after that.Or maybe it was 12. Thirteen? Na himself couldn't keep track.
"I got done with the hole and I said (to my caddie), 'I think I made somewhere between a 10 and a 15," Na said. "But I think it's close to a 15."..It was 16.
Na birdied No. 18 to go 4 under on the other 17 holes. But so dreadful was No. 9 that the score was adjusted three times -- first a 14, then 15, and finally, following a lengthy review of a video replay before signing his scorecard, it changed yet again to a 16.
The worst single-hole score at a PGA TOUR event belongs to John Daly, who had an 18 on the par-5 sixth hole at Bay Hill in 1998. Ray Ainsley took 19 shots on the par-4 16th hole at Cherry Hills in the 1938 U.S. Open
Even Na was smiling by the time he tapped in a 6-footer on the green..."It's all a blur," Na said.
Here's what he does remember: his tee shot that sailed into the woods, where Na eventually found the ball. He called it unplayable and teed off again, but not with better results. Along the way he whiffed one stroke, ricocheted another off his inner thigh, tried two shots left-handed and watched the ball barely sputter forward on another stroke.All while still in the woods.
"One bad hole can basically shoot you out of the tournament," Na said. "That's what I just did."
J.J. Henry and former Open champion Stewart Cink share the Valero Texas Open lead after shooting first-round 5-under 67sAdam Scott, riding the momentum of his runner-up finish at the Masters, began his defense of last year's Texas Open championship strong and was a stroke back. The Australian shot a 68 and was tied with Charley Hoffman, Jhonattan Vegas, Vaughn Taylor and Kevin Chappell.
David Hearn is T24 -1 71 but the rest of the Canadian news is bad. Chris Baryla T122 +5 77, Mike Weir T136 +7 79 and Matt McQuillan +10 80
NATIONWIDE TOUR
Four Canucks are playing the Fresh Express Classic in Hayward California where Aussie Andrew Buckle has the lead at -6 64.
T24 David Hearn -1 71.....T122 Chris Baryla +5 77....T136 Mike Weir +7 79...T142 Matt McQuillan +10 80
Bryan Angus also on twitter @mummmbles
No comments:
Post a Comment