American Brooks Koepka reportedly stood his ground and refused to putt despite an R&A rules official telling him he should, which caused a backlog of groups waiting to tee off on the 11th.
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Brooks’s lucky shot came on the par-3 11th hole, about an hour after play resumed after being delayed 10-and-a-half hours because of heavy winds. The memory, however, might be as good as winning for the 28-year-old who had previously said just qualifying for his first major was “a dream”. The South African and playing partners Tiger Woods and Jason Day were initially told that they had to continue because everyone else was. “I’ve never seen a ball shake like that so hard trying to get out of the little indentation it was in, and obviously you can’t move it”.
Yeah, they needed to call it and wait it out…
“I don’t have a problem if it’s breezy, but when it gets out of control like that it’s not fair”.
The “loop” from the seventh to the 11th was the worst affected, but all over the course chaos reigned.
His ball bounced on the front of the green and wind-assisted, raced into the hole, although Brooks could not see the ball drop. “The three times the ball was there we were having trouble, and then finally the third time I put the ball back into play it rolled back, and I had had it at that point”. “Every R&A official in player dining is getting yelled at”, Scott tweeted.
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Daniel Brooks aced the 174-yard par-three, which is perched on the very edge of the sea and so is the green most exposed to Mother Nature and the gale-force winds she unleashed at St Andrews on Saturday.
