A well-known tenet of playing the 12th hole at Augusta National, the most famous par-3 in the world, is that you absolutely cannot hit your ball long. If you go over the green into the bunker, or anywhere else, you’ll be fortunate to have a comeback shot that stays on the green and doesn’t roll into the water in front of the putting surface.
Putting off pine straw at the Masters: An amateur finds the worst possible lie at No. 12
A rookie mistake from Jordan Niebrugge resulted in the amateur putting down a steep grade of pine straw.
Well, amateur Jordan Niebrugge is playing his first Masters, and he didn’t just go into the back greenside bunker. He airmailed the whole course, dropping it on the pine straw in the very back of Amen Corner. After several minutes of strategy discussion and rules discussion with an official, the Oklahoma State player decided to pull out the putter and tap the ball down the steep grade of pine straw. It looked like a perilous decision at first, and he was lucky his ball didn’t move before he made contact for a penalty.
That worked out pretty well, actually. The finishing number, however, was an ugly triple bogey 6 and Niebrugge is 7-over through 12 holes today.
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