Lee Westwood wasn’t the first person to go off the course and onto the pine straw of Amen Corner, but his adventure was the most amusing of the day. Playing in the final group, Westwood’s second shot clipped a tree and somehow safely ended up on a sidehill of pine straw on the other side of the creek up left and short of the green. The Englishman sauntered back to the woods, and chopped his third shot toward the putting surface. It sounded like the ball caught a fortuitous bounce off a tree, but it was hard to tell. Either way, no one seemed to have any idea where it was going and where it ended up.
Lee Westwood goes for confusing, perilous journey in the woods of Augusta
Lee Westwood goes on the most amusing adventure of the day at Augusta.
Westwood looked around scratching his head in confusion, but was told the ball was indeed safe.
Luckily, it was on the back of the green, in the same quadrant of the cup and in good shape for a two-putt par. That lightened his mood, but he still needed to figure out how to get back to the course.
ATHLETE!
He’d go on to make his conventional par.
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