Hideki Matsuyama deposited an entire sleeve of golf balls into a body of water on the par-5 18th hole at TPC Twin Cities. The 2021 Masters champ got wet off the tee and on his next two shots after drops, all but guaranteeing his stay in Minnesota this week will be a short one.
But Matsuyama did manage to salvage a somewhat spectacular quadruple-bogey. If that’s possible. After finally finding dry land by going well over the green with his seventh shot, Matsuyama’s eighth, a flop from the rough, nearly slam dunked into the hole. He settled for a tap-in 9. Have a look:
3 balls in the water.
Quadruple bogey for Hideki Matusyama @3MOpen. pic.twitter.com/F4XuB9CLWf
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) July 21, 2022
And here’s how the blow-up looked on ShotTracker:
Hideki Matsuyama just made a 9⃣ with THREE balls in the water at the 18th
pic.twitter.com/593tgYiDhU
— GolfBet (@GolfBet) July 21, 2022
Yikes. Playing the back nine first, Matsuyama went out in 41, so there wasn’t much else good going on there.
After his near journey into double digits, though, Matsuyama actually birdied his next hole (Bounceback stats!), but added two more bogeys to shoot an opening 77. On the bright side, at least he had enough golf balls to finish.
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