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Arnold Palmer would doubtless 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 making an attempt for positives right here.
As a result of the negatives have been quite a few. 13 strokes, in the event you’re counting. Then six extra.
“Oh my goodness,” an announcer on the PGA Tour Stay broadcast stated at one level. “What is occurring?”
In a sentence, the bunker to the left of the sixteenth gap of the Pete Dye Stadium Course occurred. Its wall is 18-feet excessive. It blocks extra pictures than Shaq or Dikembe. You wish to keep away from it. However after two pictures on Friday, Mouw discovered himself in entrance of it, about 25 yards from the opening, through 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 Stay: “Oh, that was method too clear. Straightforward to do.”
— On stroke 4, from dormant grass to the proper of the inexperienced, Mouw pitched his ball over the inexperienced — and again into the bunker.
Stated an announcer: “Oh my goodness. What is occurring?”
— On stroke 5, Mouw’s ball missed clearing the bunker by about 5 ft — 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 ft — 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 Stay: “Oh my gosh.”
— On stroke eight, from proper of the inexperienced once more, from dormant grass once more, Mouw pitched his ball right into a small embankment in entrance of the inexperienced — and his ball rolled throughout and again into the bunker.
Stated an announcer on PGA Tour 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 proper of the wall and again into the green. The errors have been seemingly over.
— They weren’t. One stroke 10, Mouw seemingly miscalculated how agency the inexperienced was, hit his ball about 5 ft in need of the flag — and his ball rolled over the inexperienced.
Stated a PGA Tour Stay 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 and 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.
Others have hit there, too, although.