Alex Smalley’s hit at 17 in the last round of tiles, just before falling into the water.
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whether Sunday to players Was it all, it was chaotic.
ABOUT Rory Mcilroy Holding the lead, a number of travelers who follow him and one of the best stretches of the holes across the tournament, the tension around what may come was relentless.
This happened until Alex Smalley went up to 17 Stadium – Then, finally, we got a moment of levility.
Smalley had fought admirable over the weekend, playing along with mcilroy for each hole, fading out of quarrels only in nine Sunday. Smalley was eight under and four back when it reached 17, Famous par-3 with a green island. He had made three pairs unwillingly there, but there was nothing easy for what he was coming.
For the last round of Sunday, the classic location of the fourth round hole was in place-13 steps from the front and only three from the right green edge. In other words, stuck Right. The players try to hit a shot from left to right that grabs the slope and stuck down the hole. Smalley’s hit did not move left to right.
On the contrary, it went straight. Truly TO
A straight ball in 17 leaves you to pray for a soft flatulence because there is a strong flock in the top of that green. Smalley found it, sending his ball fastened forward, through the grassy landing surface and collar. But Smalley had grabbed his ball so tightly that he rolled so tightly that he stopped all progress in front of the woods surrounding the green. The ball even immersed again against the grassy collar, letting everyone wonders how it would be possible for Smalley to play a blow from there.
Until his ball began to be complicated … and deceived … and deceived even more.
Gravity had the control of Smalley’s ball now, pushing it slowly from one plank to another, like a marble rolling down a bar. Only boundless optimists could believe it would stay dry.
Incredibly, the ball rolled on three different boards, almost coming to one stop in the second before earning steam in the third and eventually falling into the water. Smalley’s face was lit throughout the transmission, completely greedy, continuing further. (He would get relief in the fall area, tar and two-point for double double.) Excavations from the gallery showed you everything. This was a shot that you can really appreciate only after you have seen it.
Don’t just appreciate the video above. Go back and see the photo getty perfectly the ball at the exact moment when it went the plank and the dove in the water.
