PONTE VEDRA COASTLINE, Fla.– From the 2nd it left his hands, Min Woo Lee’s putt was tracking.
Lee had actually made a couple of putts on Saturday at the Players Championship, however absolutely nothing rather like the one he would certainly appealNo 17 at TPC Sawgrass: a 38-foot, 9-inch bender that crested delicately over the luck in the placing surface area as well as toppled innocently towards house.
“I was going up there thinking and talking to my caddie, like, how can I stop this?” Lee claimed.
They both recognized the solution: hit the opening.
As Lee– as well as 36,000 others– enjoyed intently, the round started its last descent towards the flagstick. The group gradually crescendoed as it rolled more detailed, its dimples lit up in beam of lights of gold sunshine.
Lee had actually currently billed after the round by the time it zeroed in on the flag. His hand was currently elevated in the air, finger aimed towards the paradises.
And after that something amusing occurred. It missed out on.
“Oh man, it was looking good,” Lee claimed later, a smile still smudged on his face. “When I got on to the apex where it was going down, it was inside-left and it was looking so good and it just crept right. That would have been nice. The roars would have been pretty crazy.”
Lee, obviously, is right; a make would certainly have been insane. But in knowledge, a miss out on was possibly better.
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Lee would certainly take place to complete his round at 12 under for the week, 2 strokes rear of the 54-hole leader,Scottie Scheffler The 2 golf players will certainly play Sunday’s last round in the exact same pairing for the 2nd time.
That is simply one item ahead out of Saturday at the Players Championship, a competition that is swiftly coming to be the weirdest in expert golf. For yet an additional year, a glance at the 54-hole leaderboard enhances us with a few of golf’s most terrific anomalies.
At the top of everything is Scheffler, that can leave from Ponte Vedra asWorld No 1 with a triumph tomorrow however can not leave without dipping his toes right into the unfamiliarity. He paused from a life time touch of saying response to inform a press reporter on Saturday that he consumes coffee each day of his life … besides the ones in which he plays golf.
There’s Aaron Rai (-9 ), the two-gloved 28-year-old from England that likewise soaked a hole-in-one on the 17th onSunday Did we discuss he still utilizes iron covers? He’s linked with Chad Ramey, a 30-year-old journeyman that would certainly be harmful the lead had he not made a quadruple-bogey 7 on the 17th on Saturday, an initiative that caused 2 sank golf rounds.
Just behind those 2 is Tom Hoge (-8 ), that established the program document on Saturday at TPC Sawgrass with a 10-under 62. Hoge, an infamously craving for sweets, confessed Saturday that he is on a cravings strike.
“It’s actually my complaint that the food here in player dining is too healthy,” he claimed. “A lot of vegetables.”
“I need a cheeseburger or something.”
