Zach Johnson attempts golf shot off pile of rocks, fails spectacularly
Pick it up and take a drop. Pick it up and take a drop. Pick it up and take a drop. Pick it up and take a drop. Pick it up and ... noooooooo.
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Zach Johnson is one of the steadiest, smartest, and more consistent players on the PGA Tour, and has been for almost a decade. But this was not his brightest moment and not the smartest play of his career.
Johnson’s ball rolled in a rock collection that abuts a water hazard on the Palmer Course at the Humana Challenge. It was the same area and same dilemma that Webb Simpson faced on Thursday. After standing over his ball, addressing it, and making several practice swings at his lie on the rocks, Simpson decided to pick it up and take a drop. Johnson did not, and the result was a spectacular failure.
In golf, it’s never good when your ball is going backwards. It’s especially ugly when it’s going backwards and into the water. Johnson would finish with a double bogey on the hole and with an early nominee for worst shot of the season.
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