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Matt Baldwin, on the scene of the crime, says he laughed. A day later, whereas confessing, he laughs once more.
Golf, in spite of everything, is a humorous recreation, and tee photographs that comedically go between your legs and nearly fall within the water behind you’re humorous photographs.
Wait, what?
Yeah, it’s true, although observers might have completed a double-take Thursday, ought to they’ve been perusing Baldwin’s outcomes throughout the British Masters first spherical. Gap 1 on the Belfry was clear; a par. Gap 2 noticed a birdie. Gap 3, one other par. Then got here gap 4, a 438-yard par-4, with bushes and bunkers guarding the golf green on each side, some water on the fitting, some water in entrance of the inexperienced, and a few water to the left and behind the tee field that isn’t in play — till your tee ball finally ends up this manner, in keeping with the DP World Tour’s on-line leaderboard:
“Shot 1: 8yds, Tough
445yds to pin”
However how?? These tagging together with Baldwin might have seen. However the majority of parents had been probably at midnight, and the DP World Tour social-media gang sought solutions. They discovered Baldwin on the vary, and Friday, they shared a video.
This was his debrief:
“Yeah, so obtained to the 4th tee yesterday and easy — driver down the center of the opening, clearly should you can go down the center,” Baldwin began.
“Obtained to the highest of my backswing, felt like a bit of little bit of a crack possibly within the glue or within the head, so tried to cease, momentum carried me on and simply clipped the ball that a lot right here [here, he motioned to the bottom of the bottom of the club] and it went by means of my legs and almost into the water hazard down behind me. So I feel in whole it went about 8 yards. So yeah, it was fascinating.
“I immediately laughed simply because I assumed that as a result of I had tried to cease I’d’ve been capable of re-peg it up and play the opening, however it seems as a result of I made contact with the ball, it was really a shot and I needed to play my subsequent one from a yard in entrance of the tee marker, from the tough.”