The Pro Tour is 25 yards from the hole. Then something incredible happened
William Mouw played on the 16th hole at Pete Dye Stadium on Friday.
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Arnold Palmer might sympathize. So does Bob Murphy. And JT Poston. And Kevin Streeman. And Martin Laird. and seemingly countless others. Even former House Speaker Tip O’Neil did. Everything once stood where William Mow stood on Friday, and then everything fell like Mow down. He is not alone. His pain was accompanied by company.
We are trying to find the positives.
Because there are many negative factors. Thirteen if you’re counting. And then there are six more.
“Oh my God,” an announcer on a live PGA Tour event said at one point. “What’s wrong?”
In a word, it happened in the bunker on the left side of the 16th hole on the Pete Dye Stadium course. Its walls are 18 feet high. He blocks more shots than Shaq or Dikembe. You want to avoid it. But after two shots on Friday, Mouw found himself in front of the hole, about 25 yards away, in the second round of the American Express Championship. and then? Wow, boy.
— On his third shot, Mouw sent his ball flying over the green.
The PGA Tour announcer said: “Oh, that’s so clean. Easy to do.
— On the fourth shot, Mu threw his ball back onto the green from dormant grass and into a bunker.
One announcer said: “Oh my God. What’s going on?
— On the fifth shot, Mouw’s ball missed the bunker by about five feet and drifted back down. It was his second bunker shot.
“I mean, you have no choice but to laugh at yourself,” said Golf Channel analyst Johnson Wagner. Notably, during a segment on the network this week, Wagner hit out of a bunker Hit a ball and hit one of them.
— On the sixth shot, Mouw’s ball missed by about two feet — and then it flowed again. It was his third bunker shot.
Wagner said, “Oh, kid.”
Announcer Steve Sands said: “Did he do it again? He did it. Oh, my God.
— On the seventh shot, Mu cleared the bunker — but his ball sailed over the green again. It was his fourth bunker shot.
“Oh my God,” the PGA Tour announcer said.
— On the eighth shot, again from the right side of the green, again from the dormant grass, Mouw chipped his ball into a small embankment in front of the green — and his ball rolled across the putting surface and back into the bunker.
As the ball rolled, the PGA Tour announcer said: “Settle, settle, settle, settle, settle.”
Another announcer said: “Oh my God.”
— On the ninth shot, Mu hit his fifth shot from the bunker to the right side of the wall and back to the fairway. The error seems to have ended.
— They are not. On a par-10, Mu appeared to misjudge the firmness of the green, hitting the ball five feet from the pin before his ball rolled across the green.
The PGA Tour announcer said: “What are you doing? Meow meow, what are you doing?
— Shot 11 is a re-pitch.
Shot 12 is a putt.
Shot 13 was his last shot of the hole.
statistics? Bogeys eight on par 5s. He fired five shots from the hellish bunker. He started the tournament at six under and finished at two over. He ended the round at five over par. He started the day tied for 46th and finished 106th.
But there’s more.
On the hole after No. 16, the par-3 17th, the island green, Mu threw his first two shots into the water and ended up with a triple-bogey six.
However, others drank too.
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