Sergio Garcia 5-putted from 9 feet at The Players Championship
The conditions have changed dramatically on Saturday at The Players. The greens are no longer receptive, and they’re running very quickly – so fast that no putt is dead.
Sergio Garcia demonstrated how difficult the greens are at TPC Sawgrass with a five-putt on the par-4 fifth in the third round.
Garcia found the fringe with his second shot at the 471-yard hole with his approach shot. He took putter from just off the green for his third shot, lagging up to 8-and-a-half feet for par. And that’s when the carnage began.
The Spaniard blew his par putt by about 5 feet. He blew the bogey putt by another 5 feet. He missed the next one for double bogey, going 4 feet past the hole. Garcia then missed the 4 footer for triple bogey. Garcia finally made a 2-foot putt for quadruple-bogey 8.
It’s the first 5-putt at The Players since 1992.
At the current rate, there will be more 3-putts or worse in Round 3 than there were in the first two rounds combined with a 144-player field.
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