William Mouw on Friday on the sixteenth gap on the Pete Dye Stadium Course.
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Arnold Palmer would seemingly sympathize. Bob Murphy, too. And J.T. Poston. And Kevin Streelman. And Martin Laird. And seemingly numerous others. Even Tip O’Neil, the previous speaker of the Home. All as soon as stood the place William Mouw stood Friday, and all collapsed like Mouw collapsed. He wasn’t alone. His distress had firm.
We’re attempting for positives right here.
As a result of the negatives have been quite a few. 13 strokes, for those who’re counting. Then six extra.
“Oh my goodness,” an announcer on the PGA Tour Reside broadcast mentioned at one level. “What is going on?”
In a sentence, the bunker to the left of the sixteenth gap on the Pete Dye Stadium Course occurred. Its wall is 18-feet excessive. It blocks extra pictures than Shaq or Dikembe. You need to keep away from it. However after two pictures on Friday, Mouw discovered himself in entrance of it, about 25 yards from the opening, in the course of the second spherical of the American Specific match. After which? Whew, boy.
— On stroke three, Mouw rocketed his ball over the inexperienced.
Stated an announcer on PGA Tour Reside: “Oh, that was manner too clear. Simple to do.”
— On stroke 4, from dormant grass, Mouw pitched his ball again over the inexperienced — and again into the bunker.
Stated an announcer: “Oh my goodness. What is going on?”
— On stroke 5, Mouw’s ball missed clearing the bunker by about 5 toes — and it trickled again down. That was his second bunker shot.
Stated analyst Johnson Wagner on the Golf Channel broadcast: “I imply, there’s no more you are able to do apart from chuckle at your self.” Notably, in a spot for the community this week, Wagner performed a shot from the bunker — and skulled one out.
— On stroke six, Mouw’s ball missed clearing by about two toes — and it once more trickled again down. That was his third bunker shot.
Stated Wagner: “Oh boy.”
Stated announcer Steve Sands: “Did he do it once more? He did. Oh my goodness.”
— On stroke seven, Mouw cleared the bunker — however once more his ball sailed over the inexperienced. That was his fourth bunker shot.
Stated an announcer on PGA Tour Reside: “Oh my gosh.”
— On stroke eight, from proper of the inexperienced once more, from dormant grass once more, Mouw chipped his ball right into a small embankment in entrance of the inexperienced — and his ball rolled throughout the placing floor and again into the bunker.
Stated an announcer on PGA Tour Reside as his ball rolled: “Settle, settle, settle, settle, settle.”
Stated one other announcer: “Oh my goodness.”
— On stroke 9, from the bunker for a fifth time, Mouw performed his ball to the precise of the wall and again into the golf green. The errors seemed to be over.
— They weren’t. One stroke 10, Mouw seemingly miscalculated how agency the inexperienced was, hit his ball about 5 toes wanting the flag — and his ball rolled over the inexperienced.
Stated a PGA Tour Reside announcer: “What are you doing? Mouw, what are you doing?”
— Stroke 11 was a pitch again on.
Stroke 12 was a putt.
Stroke 13 was his final of the opening.
The tally? An octuple bogey on the par-5. He’d taken 5 pictures from the hellish bunker. He’d began the opening at six-under for the match, and he left it at two-over. He completed the spherical at five-over. He began the day tied for forty sixth and ended it in 106th.
However there was extra.
On the opening after 16, the island-green, par-3 seventeenth, Mouw dumped his first two pictures within the water, earlier than ending with a triple-bogey six.
Others have hit within the drink, too, although.
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