‘What are you doing?’ – PGA Tour rookie suffers complete meltdown in golf’s most infamous bunker
Golfer William Mouw will be having nightmares about the infamous 18-foot bunker at the Pete Dye Stadium Course. Competing in only his third-ever PGA Tour event, the 24-year-old carded an octuple bogey during the second-round of The Amex. Iconic designer Pete Dye had some fun with the bunker on 16 at The AMEXGetty And Mouw became its latest victim in extraordinary fashionPGA Tour Mouw arrived at the par-five 16th at six-under-par, knowing a stress-free finish would see him through to the weekend and guarantee a pay-day. Instead, the American carded a 13 after three separate trips to the most daunting bunker in all of golf. He would finish in a tie for 151st after suffering a complete meltdown that left fans and commentators gasping. Mouw was in perfect position off the tee but made the unforgivable mistake of pulling his second shot left when trying to hit the green in two. Stuck 18 feet below the putting surface, the golfer’s first attempt to escape was successful, but he caught too much ball and he flew the green into another hazard. Now on a downslope, with the green running away from him and back into the 18-foot trap, Mouw compounded his error by hitting his fourth shot back where the third one came from. It took three more attempts to get the ball over the lip – and when it finally came out – he missed the green long once again. Now playing his eighth shot, fans could barely watch as Mouw attempted a bump-and-run, which initially appeared to get him on the dancefloor. But onlookers were soon gasping in horror as the ball slowly picked up speed and trickled back into the 18-foot bunker for a third time. Desperate for an end to the pain, Mouw decided to play away from the pin, getting out on his first attempt this time and leaving a lengthy but routine chip from the fairway. This is what faces golfers from the bottom of the bunker on 16Getty And this was the full extent of the damage for MouwPGA Tour Even still, his tenth shot was a disaster, and went racing through the back of the green. At this point, one of the PGA Tour’s commentator could only shout: “What are you doing!?” Mouw would finally put his 11th shot on the green and take two putts to bring his misery to an end. It will go down as one of the biggest scores on a single hole in PGA Tour history, albeit not the biggest. That honour still belongs to Tommy Armour, who hit ten balls out of bounds on his way to a legendary ‘Archaeopteryx’ – which is apparently what they call 15 or more over-par. As the story goes, Armour took 23 shots on the 17th hole at the 1927 Shawnee Open.
Golfer William Mouw will be having nightmares about the infamous 18-foot bunker at the Pete Dye Stadium Course.
Competing in only his third-ever PGA Tour event, the 24-year-old carded an octuple bogey during the second-round of The Amex.
Mouw arrived at the par-five 16th at six-under-par, knowing a stress-free finish would see him through to the weekend and guarantee a pay-day.
Instead, the American carded a 13 after three separate trips to the most daunting bunker in all of golf.
He would finish in a tie for 151st after suffering a complete meltdown that left fans and commentators gasping.
Mouw was in perfect position off the tee but made the unforgivable mistake of pulling his second shot left when trying to hit the green in two.
Stuck 18 feet below the putting surface, the golfer’s first attempt to escape was successful, but he caught too much ball and he flew the green into another hazard.
Now on a downslope, with the green running away from him and back into the 18-foot trap, Mouw compounded his error by hitting his fourth shot back where the third one came from.
It took three more attempts to get the ball over the lip – and when it finally came out – he missed the green long once again.
Now playing his eighth shot, fans could barely watch as Mouw attempted a bump-and-run, which initially appeared to get him on the dancefloor.
But onlookers were soon gasping in horror as the ball slowly picked up speed and trickled back into the 18-foot bunker for a third time.
Desperate for an end to the pain, Mouw decided to play away from the pin, getting out on his first attempt this time and leaving a lengthy but routine chip from the fairway.
Even still, his tenth shot was a disaster, and went racing through the back of the green.
At this point, one of the PGA Tour’s commentator could only shout: “What are you doing!?”
Mouw would finally put his 11th shot on the green and take two putts to bring his misery to an end.
It will go down as one of the biggest scores on a single hole in PGA Tour history, albeit not the biggest.
That honour still belongs to Tommy Armour, who hit ten balls out of bounds on his way to a legendary ‘Archaeopteryx’ – which is apparently what they call 15 or more over-par.
As the story goes, Armour took 23 shots on the 17th hole at the 1927 Shawnee Open.
