U.S. Open Epics - Tiger Woods: Perfection at Pebble

it welcome you to Pebble Beach for this 100 US Open it's the most dominating performance in major championship history period I don't think we've ever seen somebody compete like we saw at the hundred playing in the open it's simply remarkable that in one individual was so much better than 155 other players the US Open it's so hard and it's so easy to make a mistake and so for Tiger to do what he did is without a doubt the girls perform as a golf history Wow it's just not a fair fight no it really isn't it's as close to perfection as any performance and four rounds of golf because of where we were what the elements threw at him I think in terms of golf history it's by the greatest championship that's ever been played it all came together for one magical week so I gave him something good to watch when you're a kid on the golf course by yourself and you have four balls out there one might be Arnie one might be Jack one might be Hogan or whoever and one as you and you're playing for the US Open every afternoon the US Open is golf's toughest test that was its moniker that's what the guys knew going in and so when you are able to play in it that's a huge accomplishment and then to win that's as good as it gets the good US Open players will figure out a way it's the ultimate in grinding it out never giving in and just hanging in there to win the open stamp to it there's a player for the ages it's the greatest honor you can have in golf blackbook has won it there at level big Pebble Beach is a national golf treasure the best in the world they want to win a championship at Pebble Beach you win at Pebble Beach you really accomplished something you win the US Open at Pebble Beach it's like highlight forever the opening mm was much anticipated for a variety of reasons the hundreth US Open Pebble Beach it has a very very special ring to it and here we are it was my very first time in the tower in 18th tower in a US Open and so I was pretty nervous how many times that we see Jack Nicklaus save his best drama at the finishing hole that Jack was saying goodbye to the majors it was his 44th and last US Open a guy that was just synonymous for that championship this was the first US Open since Payne Stewart's tragic death and of course he would have been the defending champion to open the event honor pain in his memory they had all the players hitting balls in to Stillwater Cove there was just a lot of emotions swirling around this tournament even before it began going in all of this glare was on tiger yet we didn't really know what we were gonna see we'd seen a lot out of them already we'd seen him when US Amateur Championships history three in a row no one had ever done that we'd seen him win a Masters by 12 shots now what are we gonna see because this is the real deal on a tough tough track for all the firepower that Tiger had and all the grind a lot of long hitters have never been able to prosper at the US Open so we still weren't sure what kind of US Open player he was gonna be or if his game would translate to a test like Pebble Beach I was looking forward to playing one of the golf courses I truly loved but more importantly that my game was really dialed in right and it was just a matter of pacing myself to where I was ready beautiful morning for golf very little wind of course very receptive a lot of good scores Tiger Woods and having a fine first round on this Thursday the first round of 2000 US Open of course played a lot easier than expected there's a lot of moisture on the greens and the fairways and when the greens are softer even at the US Open the players can attack and that is what happened on that Thursday watch out could go in that was easy when you players in good form and he's excited and ready for the situation you just can't wait for the first friend to keep going and get it underway you can see he was in good form confident and it was going to be you know a good tournament it was a statement no question I mean Tiger came out and said I'm gonna play this golf course the way I can there was just an ease with which Tiger played the golf course what's interesting about that first round is there's no one shot you point to and said that was amazing it was just a lot of really really good shots and a lot of strong putty under the tree landed in the long rough and have it jump out coming there and playing practice rounds at Pebble Beach all two and a half three days with Tiger I haven't really told this story very often but we were on the 16th tee and all of a sudden I felt this tug on my shirt and I turn around and it was Johnny Miller and Johnny's like Mark how's the kid hit that I said Johnny that kid right there he goes yeah the cycads greatest player I've ever seen he's the greatest player in the world he never missed shot out during the practice rounds it was unbelievable and I said to Johnny I said you know to be fair if he doesn't win this week I'll be absolutely shocked let's go to 15 I really do believe I get this hunch that Tigers gonna break every US Open record this week and win by maybe a big margin Wow Johnny that's quite a statement right when he said it I looked over at him as if to say are you crazy going there right now this is we're in the first round this is a little early I know he said it on the air later on but III think I gave Johnny a little bit of information not a particularly easy shot here he needs to negotiate the mound on the right side of the green he has left it below the hole another great play little did we know not only was he right he probably understated it what she's crazy to think at this point it was hunting the whole well when he gets that one in Johnny it will be an incredible round of golf it was a picture-perfect round not one blemish on Tigers card today best round at his young US Open career 65 for Tiger Woods the leader by one it was the easiest 65 will ever see a US Open just felt like he could do that again the other guys played out of their mind to shoot 66 or 67 Tiger it was no doubt he was gonna keep going Tiger Woods the first round 65 you were lowest round in competition at the US Open here at Pebble Beach the lowest round in competition ever does that mean anything to you to have a record like that no no if I could do it for two straight days and I think it'd be pretty good welcome to the second day of the hundredth u.s. open let's go to 18 and what is probably the final u.s. open round played by the greatest ever Jack Nicklaus had an amazing US Open career 2000 was his 44th consecutive in final US Open Championship a point in history here imagine watching Babe Ruth's last World Series or Muhammad Ali's final championship fight it's hard to argue that Jack Nicklaus is not the greatest US Open player ever it's almost ironic that when Jack Nicklaus winds up his final US Open round at Tiger Woods is just about ready to tee off I was blessed to be able to compete with Jack Nicklaus and he was clearly the best of his day but by this much Tiger was this much better than everybody else and we knew it and the players knew it we're waiting there we hear this huge roar coming up and I thought Jack is due to finish any time now we have witnessed the end of an open era now passing to the torch the Tiger Woods it was nice to hear that I wish I could have been there but a little one more important things to can take care of Tiger had a 440 p.m. starting time on Friday because of the fog delay which is really late it was a long wait between when he finished on Thursday and when he started on Friday his rounds gonna take anywhere between four and a half and five hours so he's probably not going to finish his second round it's not something that happens frequently but when it does everybody knows the situation mean just all just to what you do 19 holes without a bogey in this open that is really impressive the course definitely started playing tougher in the second round greens are getting a little more raggedy the ruffs getting the longer by the second round is a little harder golf course that was when Tiger really kind of put the hammer down and the shot that everyone remembers of course is out of the rough on the sixth hole if you drove it in the right rough you had big problems there's a large cliff that you have to loft the ball up and over every player that had been in the right rough had to pitch out left short underneath the hill he's got 202 yards to the hole Tiger Wade's in there and he grabs a 7-iron it man he's gonna try to kid it up on top of this hill are you kidding me I mean this is big risk first of all he's not thinking about laying up and second of all it's a 7-iron is that enough to get there when you're a caddie I think it's like being an on course psychologist you need to try to read a guy's mind and saying the right thing at the right time and not saying something at the right time when Tiger was quiet that always was a confident feeling I got from him and that was certainly was the case that hole you just knew that there's any chance you can get the club on the ball he's gonna do it that tree wasn't gonna come and play I had a good enough lie where I felt like I could squeeze it up there and I could catch a hot one I came down a steep enough I just knew I could get a little flier out of it the swing he made at it was vicious look at this it's just not a fair fight no it really is 202 yards out of the rough up the hill 7-iron you're right ROG it's not a fair fight I couldn't think of anything else to say but it's just not a fair fight and it wasn't other guys couldn't do that it's one of the great calls in golf history because it was one of the greatest shots in golf history look at the smile on his face look at the smile on Steve Williams face they know he's the only man in the field that can do it when you see a guy hit a shot like that it's very special to watch that's just coming from a golfer side something that's just an unbelievable shot a shot at six wasn't as hard as people thought of us and just open up a 7-iron as hit as hard as I can fortune favors the brave sometimes and that's an example we fortune favored the brave tiger for his tap-in birdie Woods back to 7-under par back to a 2-shot lead walk over to the seventh tee this is going to be a very important hour for Tiger Woods the temperatures drop and it's going to get dark he's got some really hard holes what a shot what a shot is right it's good the another birdie back at Heat so this is a tremendously difficult shot this one is very high and soft a shot that not many players can play what's this is so tuned into his game right now at 11:00 you really can't see where the tee shots are finishing up I would think maybe we have a couple more holes to play but not much more than that very difficult short putt here not much more than four feet fearless that putt is fearless Roger it is getting very dark out here now if you were these guys what you want to hit the tee shot at 12:00 tomorrow morning or hit it tonight I'd want to hit it tomorrow morning I think the green is very very hard at this time of the evening and I might want to catch it earlier in the day it is very dark right now he's no player left ever played the game that is the man in the moment like Tiger only 16% of the field has hit this green in regulation today that's why I'd rather come back and try it tomorrow it hit a decent shot to get it on the green most players would want to mark the ball and come back the next day as he's walking up horn blows to conclude play but pega can still finish the whole play was suspended a few moments ago because it's not a dangerous situation the players have a chance to finish their hole I had the pace of the greens and so I didn't want to come back with freshly cut greens with them rolled as well and have to relearn the pace Tiger has a chance to end the day at 9-under and leading by three are you kidding he makes that 35 foot putt it was like a walk-off Grand Slam bottom of the ninth the ultimate punctuation mark to a really hard fought round it was like guess what guys this is what I'm gonna keep doing it was really an electric moment that defined that whole day and the first two days the US Open what a way to finish this afternoon good night you we welcome you to Pebble Beach in the early morning hours this was the scene shortly after five o'clock local time this morning Tiger was out working with coach Butch Harmon in the pre-dawn hours as he continues his second round on this Saturday we were on Saturday morning at this ungodly hour of broadcasting golf its cartoon time back in the East Coast and you're thinking I'm pretty tired but this guy's you know having the championship of a lifetime and Tiger at the 18th tee completing his second round today Tigers lead now six driver off the tee Johnny this is a dangerous shot for Tiger I really believe he's taking a gamble here oh well well no more commentary necessary when he hits it down into the ocean I've never been as nervous watching a shot that story about the 18th hole actually starts back on the on the 13th and the resumption of the second round on that morning he paddled in this room and he took three balls out of the bag and he forgot to put them back in the bag I'd put the clubs there last night you know and then it's five o'clock on the moor and just picked it back up I didn't even think I need to put some more balls in whatever it might be we're on the 13th team and I put my hand in the bag there's only three balls well just you know it's three balls we've only got six holes to go it's not a big deal back at the 13th the 13th hole there obviously hit the ball on the rough off the tee QuickLIFT had a sand wedge into the green and and scoff the ball with this graph on the ball he walked off the green check the ball to a young boy so now we've got two balls left over and 18 tiger a driver off the tee Johnny we get to 18 and of course my thought is you know maybe we just need to hit an iron down here because what if you know one goes a straight here and the ocean or out of bounds that ball didn't even come close to finding the fairway do you have to reload right here if he hits this while in the ocean we've got no golf balls left of course I can't explain from we've got no balls therefore I mean that's exactly that that's part of my job to make sure we've got all we need for the golf course I can't say I toggle got no balls therefore I said that I'm there I think me I think you just say well you put the clubs down and you walk back home he has not changed clubs Johnny I mean I can't believe that he is gonna try that again I suggested that he needed in an iron off the tee course you know why would I hit a time when I'm playing so well and you know he was not gonna hit it on he could be here for several shots if he doesn't watch out I don't think I've ever stood on the tee with my backside trembling and it was that's a good one get a nice little friendly hop so that's a gutsy shot obviously an amazing relief and I'll have to say I've never been that nervous ever in my 40 years of caring that's part of the Laura of that open I mean Tiger could be disqualified of course you can play ball out of a hazard you probably Steve Williams have been waiting out there in the Pacific trying to find it you in halfway to Tokyo when we heard the story afterward it was like are you kidding me hit one golf ball left this whole story got even better I could not believe what I was hearing you know I don't know if you call that a fond memory but certainly a memory that I'll never forget this we didn't run out of golf balls the law wouldn't be here sitting talking to you today so Tiger Woods now for bogey so he bottles up the 65 with a 69 Tigers halfway home what could turn out to be his first US Open Championship you pebble beaches for my tastes the greatest golf course in the United States it's the prettiest place in the planet it's very simple just breathe in this air you can smell it you can feel it it's just one of golf's in places but when you play there you can have four different seasons that a number of days one minute it can be sunny not much breeze then all of a sudden the fog can roll in the wind picks up it can be very very challenging well they have begun this third round here at Pebble Beach ladies and gentlemen Tiger Woods seven hour wait is just about over that's how long it has been between finishing his second round of beginning his third my conditions getting more difficult by the moment see the Whitecaps surfacing out on the bay and it's a much different golf course than Tiger Woods has seen so far in the third round it got windy and that's one pebble becomes pebble it was blowing the Greens got dried out so it put a huge premium on hitting the golf ball correctly and keep in mind myself blow the hole as soon as the wind starts blowing all of a sudden those scores start to take up the wind is a big factor Tigers always said let it blow because you're gonna eliminate people that are kind of faking their way around you want it to be painful you want the guys get their teeth kicked in that that's what the US Open is all about and that's what we got on that Saturday the third hole that's really one of the windiest spots on the course and it goes right out towards the ocean when now has turned right into the players face this ball is up shooting and to the right that could be in that little bunker guarding the right side of the green it is it could be buried yeah that's just a classic example as what a US Open can throw a pitcher not the best second shot just you know ballooned it a little bit under the window that didn't go anywhere near as far as what we thought wow this is not good I did not hit that bad a shot I don't know how am i balling it up it where it did I thought about taking on Playa Blanca just go ahead and play it he may bill get to the fairway or Mike getting a rough where he can go ahead and pitch on try and make a putt he will play the ball as it lies and he's now just pitching out sideways he has nothing else and I just couldn't get it out was just absolutely buried you couldn't see the ball you know it's one of those shots and like you know it's difficult shot when he can't move the ball because he can move a bimini one out of the rough it was just you know it's one of those lawyers you just could not actually get the club on the ball I thought he kind of quick hit them I don't know what he's doing right here you'd think you would have tried that the first time played very quickly again oh boy still in the primary rough it's looking at a possible triple bogey here if you better get it up and in guys this is really the first time the tiger has been tested like this in three rounds I got a bad break where it ended up but he didn't have too good a shot off of the Tiger Woods has to hit three shots in a row very good shot there John I don't know if he's a little flustered or angered by what happened just when you think everything's going your way at Pebble Beach he can turn in a hurry what was interesting was it all happened quickly Tiger looked a little flustered he looked a little out of his rhythm and his routine he tends to be a deliberate player Tiger Woods now with this putt for a double bogey will be a triple bogey seven I smile just because of the fact I didn't hit that bad a shot and I ended up walking over seven interesting expression there all you could do at that point huh there was a time where he had so much faith in his ability and his talent that if he had a setback because we've seen moments where you know he wouldn't handle it quite as well even though he had that setback he felt good enough that he didn't need to worry he could just let that go let's take a look at the sixth tee shot going to the right right rough setting up big time for the second day in a row tiger in a little bit of trouble huh number six out of position and 22 players go for the green in two and just one that's for the putting surface you get over the sixth hole and it's a pretty aggressive second shot there he's trying to get this ball on top it's headed a little loud oh what a lie that has found that very long grass around the bunker just as he did it number three talk about another bad break he's got to hit it off his navel out of a hole this is really bad where is he gonna put his right foot just trying to picture how's the scar gonna do this you know how is he gonna build them silver starts how is he gonna actually get the club on the ball you know how is he gonna hold the club even you could see very hard to get us foot in the bunker and just the way he get angle his knees and his legs and get himself a staff and down the shaft now I mean just another incredible example of how good of imagination that guy had I only had 64 yards of the front if I could carry 64 it might roll all the way there if not just leave it Shore the green to putt move on I think that's just a great example of tigers incredible athletic ability to build a stance and have the imagination of how to hit that shot I'm telling you what this is absolutely brilliant Wow brilliant play there it's almost like I dare you to give me a situation that I'm not able to handle anybody else wouldn't even think about trying to get done you think about tiger in 2000 everything in his game was so strong but what separate him from most other players was just the creativity and the fearlessness to try a shot that no one else would even conceive of you can practice certain shots but the innate ability of Tiger Woods to create things on the fly that is amazing I only begin it to come out Johnny but to get it to come out straight and to get it to come out the right distance when I first came out looked pretty good and land it on the green and released up there to the hole and Stevie said you know this is an important putt you need to go ahead and bury this punt it only warrants being a great shot if you make the putt if you don't make that putt well it's not a great shot pretty good up and in there how many times can you say it how many different words can be used to describe it tiger at every moment that week when he had a chance to do something different and cool he did it and that shot was a great example cool that's a great way I mean it was just yeah amazing I'm gonna finish up three rounds at a hundred US Open T at 11th largest 54-hole lead all-time at a US Open was back in 1921 it was seven Tigers lead right now eight watch how hard it says he's having fun about right now we go to 14 I've never seen anybody play golf like this before ever it's remarkable the skills and things he can do he's taking a big swing and this looks good he's carrying it up on the green my goodness what a shot didn't set for another birdie and they Shotley this 24 year-olds only gonna get better it's amazing all of a sudden you just run out of adjectives tiger at 17 just been outstanding in his back the 18th largest 54-hole lead in the united states open oh this looks really good of 71 and it has just been 18 holes left his quest the US Open champion we even fly around 71 on a day like today to take even far won't you come take even far and run especially starting out tough two conditions one his 71 was certainly some precipices 65 in the opening round because instead of retreating like most other players he ki kept going forward and that was really the crucial part of Saturday to shoot that sport and those conditions were the triple bogey has probably the round that just cemented the torment here we are to decide the championship in the 100 US Open and the man has arrived on the grounds Tiger Woods with a 10 shot lead the largest ever at this point in another Tiger 65 was the lowest score ever recorded to Pebble Beach in a US Open Tiger Woods came into this championship as the favorite he tied the record for the lowest score for the first two rounds of the US Open so he follows up the 65 with a 69 largest lead after 36 holes six strokes largest 54-hole lead 10 strokes has just been outstanding it has been an awesome display of golf let's go to the first tee solid as ever perfect shot didn't really had a look of total blow away the rest the field type of event I think we knew pretty early on it was over we knew that I'm thinking are we gonna lose viewers the worst thing that can happen in a sporting event is that the outcome can be determined way before it's done it became a situation where were kind of all out of historical perspective I really think that he's got his eyes firmly set on the all-time records now it's a quest for perfection the Rutgers then Tigers looking for going for the largest winning margin most strokes ever played under par after 72 holes in the US Open they have to be an accountant account of all the records by the end of the day so you were compelled to watch what he was going to do next it's a fascinating study to watch tiger in these tournaments when he has a big lead what motivates you to play a good last round when you're so far ahead anything that you can find and back to six Tiger Woods second shot Roger - 11 - the whole tough line a Roger gotta hit it right over the edge of the cliff line shot this is a fighter fire fire this ball is hanging out to the right just a little bit trying to turn back no bounces right I don't know if that stayed in the passing so I think it stayed in the grass Roger this is gonna be another one of those very awkward lies I wanted to have a day where I made no bogeys that was my goal from the beginning of the day no bogeys he plays the game within the game the game that Dave was taught to make a bogey dagger has drawn a horrible that's more important to him at the moment than win the US Open trophy you know because that is the goal that he has set himself for that day Wow that came out very quickly much quicker than he anticipated and he's really got some work left good shot get out 12 feet of green to work with nicely done okay six feet or so left for his farm no one hates bogies more than Tiger Woods we've been covering him since he was a teenager and I think he gets more out of saving a par than he does making a birdie or an eagle sometimes it just speaks to his doggedness of perfection back out to the 10 Tiger Woods for birdie the record for lowest overall score in a US Open is 12 under par this looks good you're thinking maybe he could win by 13 shots over to the 12 just a towering shot Johnny what a beautiful looking golf shot advantage tiger that was the genius of Tiger is he was always in the moment and he never ever let up double digits who wants to make every putt he wants to hit a great shot back over to 13 102 to the hole sand iron this ball going all right at the flagstick literally happening is this really happening placing gob young man I heard the 12 shot beat in that birdie attempt in 14 history by Tiger Woods 12-under and an open what a back nine he's Aven four birdies five holes on this back nine at Pebble Beach and a US Open just to watch him push forward it was a monument to who he is as a person as a player and the master he had that week the 16th Tiger Woods getting ready for his second shot interesting to see if he can control the distance every day cut why get down huh you know and that the torment was over I mean you can afford to drop a shot but that's not the way things not a very good life all sitting down John the grass is kind of twisted one of the few times you really just kind of hit it in the spotty couldn't do much with it well you got to know how badly he wants this play he's grinding if if it's the 72nd hole and he cannot help but admire how he is putting so much into that pockets he doesn't want to make about you their day lowest score ever shot in the open to 72 his own pace to tie that right now if he would have har in so this a huge foot permits already over but I wanted to accomplish my own goal beginning of the day and so that meant a lot to me it wasn't about Jack Nicholas's career record it wasn't about the US Open scoring record it was about making this putt this is not another 15 footer it's a putt that means the world to him determination when that bar he makes this pot you get the fist-pump and while you think Tigers not into this and doesn't want the records look at the reaction so after it's all over they interview him he says well my only goal for the day wasn't to make a bogey hello you know you think he wasn't thinking different than the rest of us you know I mean we really were thinking that this was his chance to make the greatest statement made by a golfer maybe of all time and that would be forefront in his mind nope just didn't want to make a bogey Tiger Woods he's got the records in his sights and Tiger at the par-5 18th needs a birdie to set the all-time scoring record in a US Open esra greater setting for the 18th hole of Pebble Beach and having a guy walk up to that par-5 72nd hole with that kind of lead being my very first time in the tower I just remember sitting back in my chair and taking if I'm lucky enough to do a lot more US Opens that's great but I'm never gonna see anything like this again he's nominal pressure it sat on me sort of reflect a little bit on the great accomplishment you know that those moments are great al he's selected an iron jet maybe once in the ocean a week is enough Rippa though anyway from a Kelly's perspective to be kind of there and watch that close up and see 72 holes of unbelievably good golf you know it's just special to be it Roger where we out 123 yards left to the hole John and this is no not a full pitching wedge for him just a nice as way to his third major championship Gallery which since the moment for quite some time Tiger never lost that poker face until after he and his third shot onto the green and finally he just let everybody in you could see the joy and the relief and of course he and Steve Williams had that the typically bad high-five that was vintage as well because call for some horrible high-fives it was just a great walk up that last ferry that the tiger earned and deserved it's hard for someone who's never been there to really understand the overwhelming feeling that you would get on the 18th hole and the setting is what helps make it I mean it is one of the most dramatic holes involved and then a US Open with a young Tiger Woods I mean it was amazing all that hard work as a kid college amateur golf hands bleeding from practice rain cold it's all worth it now every every minute was worth it for that last 15 min walk Oh tell him Stevie walking up 18 I said you know I've had a sense of calmness that I haven't had in a while I felt very tranquil very calm I felt very peaceful championship trophy awaits nearly question will it be a new US Open scoring record and total needs a birdie to set the all-time scoring record in a US Open is the one or record left his magic putter there was probably disappointed because he'd want to break the record and have it be there for a while but to win it by 15 shots and win a major championship by 15 shots that's just unheard of it'll be a long time before that Records broken Tiger Woods hundred US Open champion in history the record margin of victory for any major championship before today it was 13 shot victory in the British Open back in 1862 by Old Tom Morris golf hadn't even begun in this country back then when he signed the scorecard at the completion of the tournament the very first thing he said to me so tell me what was the deal on Saturday the 18th hole and I explained it and all your beauty you are please join me in welcoming the 2000 United States Open champion mr. Tiger Woods can you talk a little bit about the significance of winning the 100th US Open Championship at this beautiful venue you know come into this event that's what I had had in mind and this is Wow I'm honest tiger it's hide the record for lowest score and US Open 272 he tied for the most strokes under part any point a US Open 12 is this the best single golfing performance you've ever seen now maybe taking another step farther it might be the greatest and history of sports you have to change your thing about what's even possible across force to compare to a tiger did this is Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points four games in a row in the NBA Finals you know I mean this is Bob Beamon jumping out of Stadium forget you know that's the same thing Wow is this really happening how great do you think you are how great you think you are still to be as a golfer wow that's not exactly easy to form you answer I put together from tee to green all aspects of my game it all came together for one magical week I have never played for days like I did at Pebble Beach Tiger Woods coronation begin officially he's here and it's now people were saying hail to the king zucchini we say a lot of things in the heat of the moment but 19 years later is by far the best 72 holes has ever been played in the history of the game

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Length: 44min 14sec (2654 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 20 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Hobbes_XXV]

Just watched his pebble beach open yesterday. Just wow, that was insane. I wish i watched more of him when i was younger.

[u/zamundan]

I read the article about this. They all have the same click-bait misleading title. He wasn't DQ'd for running out of balls. He could have maybe/probably figured out some way to get more if he really wanted to keep playing (i.e. borrowing one from another player using the same brand), but he didn't even try. He just got frustrated at his own play (after plunking three four or five in a row the water) and literally just walked off the course without even trying to figure it out.

The DQ was actually for "Failure to complete a hole".

Ironically, while he wasn't actually DQ'd for running out of golf balls, it might still be accurate to say that he didn't have the balls to keep playing that day.

EDIT: I changed "three in a row" to "4 or 5 in a row" after I re-read the articles.

No one remembers for sure whether it was 4 or 5 because he did it so quickly. He was already 2 over when it happened.

[u/Bigtoe51]

Can never have enough balls

[u/printergumlight]

Credit to /u/cuedahpie for sharing the link here in this post in /r/sports

[u/GolfingGator]

This is mind boggling to me. I mean, ok, he pulled three out to putt with in the hotel. That still means you only had 6 in the bag total? Why? I’d think a PGA player’s caddie would always have a dozen in the bag minimum. Even if not for lost balls, for scuffed/imperfect ones. Strange.