Good as well as bad breaks– the “rub of the green”– are typically component of the enjoyable in a round of golf.
Players do the most effective they can, yet there belong to the video game– a lie, the means a sphere jumps– that just boiled down to good luck.
Usually, these circumstances aren’t that exceptional, yet periodically they imply a good deal– specifically at the specialist degree.
S.H. Kim experienced both sides of the coin on Friday at The American Express, unbelievably, on back-to-back holes.
The wild collection of occasions began with Kim’s 84-yard strategy (his 3rd shot) on the par-5 16th opening on PGA West’sPete Dye Stadium Course Kim struck a great shot– so great, actually, that he struck the flagstick.
And that’s where the difficulty started. Instead of backfiring off the pin as well as touchdown someplace on the eco-friendly, Kim’s round discharged the flagstick as well as ran the front of the eco-friendly. And sadly, it really did not quit there. The round remained to run right down down an incline right into a deep shelter, where it eventually resolved beside a rake.
It was a harsh as well as expensive problem to make sure. Kim wound up making a triple-bogey 8 when he ought to have had a makeable consider birdie. Awful!
But after that, the charm of the contrary side of golf’s uncertain breaks beamed via.
On the really following opening, the par-3 17th, Kim’s tee shot cruised simply left of the eco-friendly, capturing the rocks bordering it, as well as jumping high right into the air. Another catastrophe appeared brewing, yet rather incredibly, Kim’s round after that showed up on the eco-friendly, pin high, as well as 24 feet from the opening.
Perhaps a lot more exceptionally, Kim transformed the putt for birdie.
Going from a bad break to a great one, a triple-bogey to a birdie, on back-to-back holes? There need to be a word for that …
…Oh yes! Golf.
