Last week plenty of fans took issue with how PGA National's Champion course, typically one of the toughest on the PGA Tour, played easy in the first few rounds.
Golf fans can now rejoice as it appears this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational will bring the carnage so many of us crave.
Bay Hill is tough in general, but 20 mph winds on Thursday were making the course an absolute brute.
Early in his first round, Aldrich Potgieter, who narrowly missed out on his first PGA Tour two weeks ago in Mexico, is struggling mightily.
He got out to a 6 over start through eight holes, thanks in part to a topped tee shot that you’ll have to see to believe.
Shot tracker says 216 yards on this tee ball. That seems *extremely* generous
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The 20-year-old, who leads the PGA Tour in driving distance at an average of 326.9 yards, mishit the ball off the 6th tee and it appeared to fly about 50 yards before plopping directly into the middle of the water hazard fronting the tee.
The South African would go on to make a double-bogey 7 on the hole.
This article was originally published on www.si.com as PGA Tour Driving Distance Leader Dunks One of Year’s Shortest Drives Into Water.
