Viktor Hovland and caddy Shay Knight Thursday on the fifteenth gap at Royal Liverpool.
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It was…a unique kind of fall.
(Sorry.)
Nonetheless, it was fairly shitty.
(Okay, no extra.)
Let’s formally begin right here. Viktor Hovland was enjoying his first spherical of the Open Championship, and he rallied, with birdies on 11 and 12 at Royal Liverpool, after bogeys on 8 and 10. On the 602-yard, par-5 fifteenth – the longest par-5 in Open historical past – Hovland had hit a 352-yard run down the golf green, and now he was getting ready to strike once more. Of the?
Effectively, when Hovland was about to shoot, effectively, a seagull hush.
In impact. Here’s a play-by-play.
Hovland pulled an iron from his bag. A seagull flew over. Hovland’s caddy, Shay Knight, walked away. Hovland took two observe swings. He stepped again and spoke to Knight. He got here again to the ball. He was standing on it. He waved his membership.
One other seagull handed by and cried.
Hovland began his backswing.
He stopped. He stepped again. He checked out his proper arm.
“What was that?” Hovland mentioned to Knight.
He walked over to his procuring cart and held out his arm. He continued.
“I simply sat on it.”
Hovland chuckled. He appeared up on the sky. Knight wiped his arm with a golf towel.
“You already know it is luck, proper?” mentioned announcer Dan Hicks on the USA community present.
“That is what my mother instructed me the primary time it occurred to me,” mentioned analyst Paul Azinger.
Possibly. From there, Hovland returned to his ball, lastly stopped laughing, returned to his forehand routine, and hit his second shot simply to the proper of the inexperienced. Notably, as he was swinging, one other fowl flew overhead.
“Here is the perpetrator,” Azinger mentioned on the present.
“Or a future perpetrator,” Hicks mentioned.
We’ll finish issues right here with a observe on the foundations. Sure, there may be one for feces, underneath Mannequin Native Rule F-12, which is named “Animal Dung”. The rule reads as follows:
“On the participant’s choice, excrement from (specify excrement from which aid can be given, e.g. goose dung, canine excrement) could also be handled both as: free materials which can be eliminated underneath Rule 15.1, or floor underneath restore from which aid is allowed underneath Rule 16.1.
“(If dung is discovered on the placing inexperienced, the participant might also use the inexperienced change/whip positioned adjoining to the placing greens to take away the dung from the road of play. If this improves the road of play or different circumstances affecting the stroke, there is no such thing as a penalty underneath Rule 8.1a.)”
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