Golf star Will Zalatoris chipped the ball into the green.
Then something happened that made the commentators rub their eyes.
– It is not possible to succeed with that if you try a million times, one says.
For someone who does not follow golf very much, it can seem like a possibly slow sport, where not much happens out of the ordinary. But in this week’s Scottish Open, the preparatory competition for Major The Open next week, something happened that made everyone involved lose their temper.
Unlikely battle
Will Zalatoris, one of the world’s best golfers right now, was off the green and would just chip up close. His ball hit the flag, and rolled so perfectly that it managed to stop – on a marker.
It was the new major winner Matthew Fitzpatrick who had laid down in exactly the same place, put down his marker – and so Zalatori’s ball stayed on the marker. The commentators were in shock.
– I’ve never seen it before. You will not believe that to be true. The ball has stopped on a marker. How is that even possible ?, says one of the commentators.
“Give it a million tries”
Fitzpatrick certainly uses a marker of the larger kind – a poker field – but that the ball should come with sufficient speed to be able to get up, but not fall off, thus never happens.
– Just pick up the phones, because this needs to end up in the Guinness Book of Records. How will he even mark the ball now? I do not know what the rules say, because this has never happened before, says one of the commentators.
Very true, caddies arrived quickly to take pictures of the, to say the least, strange situation.
– It is not possible to succeed if you try a thousand times from one meter, says a commentator.
– 1000 !? I say it does not take a million attempts, says another.
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