And then there was Green, the second - and third - round leader, on the threshold of winning the second major title of a nine - year career, blowing her dream with a bogey, double -
bogey finish.
Tiger Woods won't have much time to recover from his disappointing double -
bogey finish in the opening round of The Players Championship.
Not exact matches
He
finished the round with three double
bogeys and an eight on the par - 4 sixth hole.
White followed the triumphant double
bogey with two birdies and
finished at two over.
While DJ compounded mistakes early in the round with that awful
finishing bogey, Jordan Spieth and Phil Mickelson were able to get a few back coming into the house.
Mahan had been leading by two strokes, but
bogeyed on No. 14 to set up what could be a wild
finish as Petterson needs a win to earn a spot in the 2012 Masters Tournament.
Shaken, he drove into the rough at 9, ended with a double
bogey, and eventually
finished with a 77 that left South Africa in trouble from which his lesser teammates could not recover.
Irwin's limping double
bogey /
bogey on the last two holes wasn't the most historic or stylish of
finishes for a man winning one of the grandest of titles, but it was plenty good enough among the Toledo wounded.
Woods
finished the tournament with a double
bogey on the 18th hole, his third in four trips there this week.
He also followed the hole - in - one with a
bogey on the 14th, but still
finished with a 5 - under 31 on the back nine.
Trailing leader Scott by a stroke, the Yorkshireman made a pudding of Doral's treacherous 18th hole, pulling his drive into the water, scrambling for
bogey and
finishing tied for third with McIlroy.
Even with the two meaningless
bogeys to
finish up, it was the lowest Sunday round ever in a major championship at that historic Rochester venue, which has names like Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, and Curtis Strange on its champions roll.
Lopez
bogeyed the 17th and
finished Saturday's round two behind Green and one ahead of Davies, but she admitted that just being in contention gave her the old «sensation of the hair rising on the back of my neck.»
But the last few groups out on the course, and his
finishing bogey, moved the cut line to exactly even - par.
Mickelson fell out of contention after
finishing with a triple
bogey on the hole.
He double -
bogeyed the 10th hole,
bogeyed the 12th and added two additional
bogeys on Nos. 15 and 18 to
finish +4 for the day.
And moments later, Kite would do what Nelson had done — find the water with a seven - iron and totally collapse with a triple -
bogey six, a blow that sent him reeling to a disastrous round of 75 and a tie for sixth, the eighth time in nine years that Kite had
finished in the top six.
They have become our
bogey team over the past couple of years so it is very important that we beat them, not only to end this horrific run of results against them but also to boost our chances of a top 4
finish.....
With three holes to play Willis held a four - shot lead, but he
finished bogey -
bogey - double
bogey to fall into a playoff, which he lost.
Mark Brooks followed behind with a
bogey to
finish at 15 - over.
Li
finished her second round with
bogeys on three of her final four holes but made the cut with a stroke to spare, at 1 - over.
He
finished the day without a
bogey, sinking three birdies on the front nine and adding two more on the back.
Kraft made double
bogey and
finished at 1 - over par on Harbour Town Golf Links, missing the cut by a stroke.
It
finished as sunset in Honolulu was minutes away, with Hahn
bogeying the par - 3 redan 17th hole.
Known as Radar because of his uncanny accuracy and best remembered for the
bogey, double -
bogey, par
finish that handed the 1989 PGA Championship to Payne Stewart, Reid is soft - spoken and humble to a fault, not unlike one of his heroes, Jimmy Stewart.
Joe Ogilvie
finished up his third round of play struggling again, shooting a 76 and beginning his round of play with three straight
bogeys followed by a double -
bogey.
Van Pelt
bogeyed 18 as well,
finishing in second place at -6.
The Brian Dennehy doppelgänger was the only player in the field to
finish below Tony Romo after the first round, thanks to a flukey triple
bogey at the end of the first day.
Befitting one of the best rivalries in golf, the race to the Race between Ko and Park was a photo
finish, with the outcome riding on Ko's final short stroke for
bogey on the 72nd hole.
A double
bogey ensued and DJ
finished T5.
But Potter had a par and two
bogeys on his
finishing front nine and the tournament's co-leader fell into the far more frequent ranks of players...