Leading into the tournament we were warned about all of Hoylake’s internal out-of-bounds and told by one top coach that the course’s new par 3 “could ruin somebody’s career”. But it was an old links standard that caused this disaster: the pot bunker.
Meissner finished T-59 to earn a little more than $US3,000 for the week. But it’s hard not to think how much better he would have fared had he not shot 13-over on one hole.
Despite reaching double-digits on a single hole for the first time in his professional career, Woods didn’t match the record for highest score on the famed par 3.
DeChambeau was already having a wild round, with five birdies and five bogeys on his card through 14 holes, while sitting comfortably inside the cut line at one over for the tournament. He then stepped to the par-5 15th tee and, simply put, everything unravelled.
Entering the Web.com Tour season finale at No.82 in the standings, Rottluff still needs a lot more birdies to move into the top 25 and earn a PGA Tour card this week.