On the first day of the Players Championship, which is called the ‘5th Major Tournament’ of the American Professional Golf (PGA) Tour, Ahn Byung-Hoon experienced a nightmare in which he lost 8 strokes in one hole and committed an’Octuple Look’.
Ahn Byung-hoon scored 11 strokes in the 17th hole (par 3) of the first round of the tournament held at TPC Sawgrass in Pontevedra Beach, Florida, USA.
It was the’Octuple Show’ where you forgot 8 strokes in one hole.
Hole 17, the’Island Hall’ where the green floats like an island on the lake, is the hallmark of the Players Championship.
The view of the green in the middle of the water is a pleasure to viewers, but for players, if the tee shot misses a little, the ball falls into the water and can act as a big variable in the game result, which is a burdensome place.
In the 17th hole set at 143 yards on the first day, Ahn Byeong-hoon drowned the tee shot and then drowned it three more times in the drop zone.
Some balls bounced off the green a few times and then fell out, while others seemed to settle and then slide down into the water.
In the end, Ahn Byung-hoon, who put the ball on the green after 9 strokes, finished the 17th hole with 2 putts.
Ahn Byung-hoon’s 11 strokes is the record for the 2nd most at-bats in this hole.
In 2005, Bob Tway’s 12 at-bats avoided the dishonor of being number one in the most at-bats.
Ahn Byung-hoon, who was recording 1 over par from hole 1 to hole 16, lost 2 more shots in the last hole 18 after collapsing at hole 17 and eventually placed 11 over par and at the bottom of the list.
Ahn Byung-hoon left an SNS message saying, “Everyone has a bad day in life. You have to learn from it. Still, the 17th hole tee shot was terrible.”
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