As we’ve seen plenty already at Pinehurst, even shots that are just slightly off pay a severe price. So imagine the pain you’d feel getting penalized for hitting a great shot there?
Such was the situation Sepp Straka found himself on Friday morning. After a nice tee shot on the par-4 third, the two-time PGA Tour winner was left with just a wedge from 139 yards. And he hit it a perfect one. As it turns out, too perfect.
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Straka’s ball ricocheted off the flagstick and then rolled all the way back off the green and into a bunker. From there, things didn’t get better as he went from possibly making a kick-in-birdie to get into red figures to making a disastrous triple bogey. Have a look, if you can handle watching such a bad break:
You wouldn’t think a shot off the flagstick could sound so hideous. Ts & Ps to Straka—and all the Straka bettors out there. That’s brutal.
The UGA Bulldog is known for being a Diet Coke fiend, but he might need something stronger to try to get over that.
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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
