In a loopy two-hole sequence on the 3M Open in Minnesota, followers had been reminded that execs should not proof against the sport’s highs and lows.
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The golf gods giveth they usually taketh away. Anybody who performs the sport is aware of it to be fickle. One minute, the fates smile kindly on us, solely to darken with our very subsequent swing moments later.
Such dramatic highs and lows don’t simply strike on the newbie stage, although, with Tour execs experiencing them, too.
As proof, think about the wild sequence of occasions involving Hayden Buckley throughout Friday’s second spherical of the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities.
In what had already been a unstable day for Buckley — marked by two double-bogeys and two birdies on his entrance 9 — the 28-year-old professional arrived on the 407-yard sixteenth gap in a less-than-buoyant temper.
He was eight over for the event, and his poor outing was about to worsen.
After a flared drive on the par-4 left him in a hazard space alongside the water, Buckley tried hacking out — however the golf gods had been having none of it. Buckley’s ball caromed off a pink stake simply in entrance of him and ricocheted into the drink, prompting the pissed off Buckley to tug the stake out of the bottom and slam it down. He went on to make a 6 on the opening. His spherical was drawing to a detailed, however destiny wasn’t completed messing with him.
Subsequent up for Buckley was the par-3 seventeenth, enjoying 178 yards over water. With a logjam on the tee, Buckley needed to climate a 20-minute wait.
“It’s by no means enjoyable ready once you’re enjoying terrible,” he stated.
However his spirits had been about to brighten. Taking useless intention, Buckley jarred his tee shot for an ace, his frustration giving solution to excessive fives.
For good measure, Buckley adopted up his hole-in-one with a birdie on 18, nevertheless it was too little, too late. He missed the minimize, repeating what he’d completed on the 2023 Gamers Championship at TPC Sawgrass, the place he aced the island-green seventeenth but additionally didn’t make the weekend.
“I would like to determine this entire hole-in-one and make minimize factor,” Buckley stated.
Determining the golf gods would possibly take longer.
“Bizarre issues occur on this recreation,” Buckley quipped.
