Jake Knapp’s Water Demise reminds us why this event is great
Sean Zak
Jake Knapp played Water Hazards in PGA National on Sunday.
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Over the years, the importance of cognitive classics has gradually disappeared. It used to be a little bit slight, but it gradually disappeared. There are four games in Florida, with many ranked fourth. So to say.
It used to be the Honda Classic – the automaker sponsored events for over 40 years, but they kept moving forward when professional golf began to get weird in recent seasons. The event is used to attract Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson – the Jupiter crew – but none of these people have competed since 2022.
But the classics that recognize are driven primarily for those who are not in the field of signature events next week, underperforming or underperforming in the world rankings. Here, it’s more than anywhere else, but more importantly, it’s a place to see if you have a cargo. That’s why PGA Nationals keep reminding us to do this again this week. Not only Sunday, players have to walk through bear traps on the tips of their feet. It was the whole week.
On tamed golf courses with mild conditions, the best modern golfers (built primarily from repetitive robot numbers) will make the course lower. Jake Knapp is our chief invader who shot 59 with a closing ball – the way you want to shoot 59 if you’re Tour Pro. He drove it to supreme, this is Jake Knapp golf. He is not known for his short game, putter or steel game. He is PGA Tour Average In many locations, the average distance is above average and the accuracy is much lower than average. But in his days yes Accurate? Beware. It was Thursday.
Fifty-nine is rare, and although their knowledge is like events, they still feel special. 59 is special enough that if it’s in the first round, then the eyes of all the matches are now locked on you. There were 15 59, but only 5 led to the victory. Don’t be too full on the appetizer and ruin the main course.
Knapp will never beat that round twice. He didn’t thrive on this golf course. He thrives on large-scale courses No There is water everywhere. You can ignore the dangers of 18 happiness holes, but ultimately they will greet you. You have said a lot about the way you respond. Knapp kept his ball dry when he first encountered these dangers on Friday. He drove away with a lead on Sunday and appeared under cruise control, and he fired a shot on the field when he found the 11th fairway.
But PGA National’s Sunday defender nine games is a bit like a wall slowly moving inward. Missing often leads to other misses.
So when Knapp is in the unfortunate wedge of 11 o’clock, leaving it in the water, partially immersed in the water, we have to be commendable for trying to resume shooting on one shoe. Even if he doesn’t practice much with this shot, every player in the field imagines how they play. We’ve seen Bill Haas and Henrik Stenson do this, creating the PGA Tour for the next few years.
However, Knapp became the highlight of negative changes.
Never let the Greenside microphone tell the whole story so perfectly. You can close your eyes and play the clips and still feel everything from club spanking to regretful reactions from the crowd. It was all the way to Knapp’s second attempt, hanging from the water on the bank, but letting him say we only need two words: never.
After making the triple bogey, Knapp moved from the first to the 12th on the 11th tee, and over a period of time during the course, rediscovering your comfort zone doesn’t exist.
To his credit, he did not avoid it. When asked about his thought process about the water-soaked in the fight, he reiterated an idea: he just didn’t hit them hard enough.
“I wish I could shoot at 11 o’clock,” Knapp told reporters. “Other than that, I think I’d consider 59, but that’s not to say that this shot would bother me or something like that. For the most part, I’m very happy with the way I hit and feel like I’ve only played super solid today, except for just one hole.”
But that’s what PGA National is doing. A bad hole It can be worse than elsewhere. soon. The object in the mirror of cognition (led by the hungry player class who longs for victory) is always It looks closer than they are. As far as Knapp is concerned, Joe Highsmith is the object’s sneaky moves much faster than he seems.
We’ve seen it here before – with Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed, we’ll see it again at PGA National. Maybe 12 months from now. Who is leading who, their lead or their world rankings don’t matter, PGA National is like a boxer returning to the corner weathered body strike, knowing that it can still wield its own fist or two. Every year it beats some players.
