This week has seen a record number of horrific golf lipouts. Initially, there was Wyndham Clark’s potential birdie putt on the 72nd hole of the Players Championship, which would have forced a playoff and tied him with Scottie Scheffler at 20 under.
DP World Tour pro Ockie Strydom, who was robbed of both a once-in-a-lifetime ace at the Porsche Singapore Classic on Thursday and a $200,000 Porsche Panamera Turbo E Hybrid, provides us with another example that is less significant but in some ways much more traumatic.
Crime in the modern world. Exactly in the light of day. Our politicians need to act, don’t they?
With a hole-in-one, DP World Tour pro gets a Volvo subscription, and the timing couldn’t be better.
With a hole-in-one, DP World Tour pro gets a Volvo subscription, and the timing couldn’t be better.
A pro on the DP World Tour is robbed of an ace in the most heinous way you’ve ever seen.
A pro on the DP World Tour is robbed of an ace in the most heinous way you’ve ever seen.
Well, whatever the case, Ockie must have briefly pictured himself driving down the French Riviera with the top down, the wind in his hair, and the 710-watt Bose surround-sound system blasting “Boys of Summer.” Unfortunately, golf is a fickle game, and his ball lipped out for a tap-in birdie rather than hitting the bottom of the cup.
Although we don’t usually gripe about tap-in birdies, we are prepared to overlook them if they mean the difference between a brand-new automobile and the coveted hole-in-one.
