Kevin Na - 16 shots on one hole

I watched this on sky sports last night, OMG Amazing bit  of golf.

 

this taken from PGA tour website

 

For a guy who just recorded one of the highest single-hole scores in PGA TOUR history, Kevin Na was pretty upbeat. At least as upbeat as someone in his situation could be.

“I feel like I’m playing somewhat decent and it was one shot — actually two but one that started the whole thing and it was one bad hole and what’s crazy about this game,” Na said. “One bad hole can basically shoot you out of the tournament. That’s what I just did. Without that I shot I believe …”

Without that shot, Na would have shot 68 and been one stroke off the lead had he parred No. 9.

Instead he did what he did, making a 16 on the hole, that he originally thought was 14, later wrote down a 15 and then eventually determined he was 12 over on the par-4 hole when he checked replays after the round.

Only John Daly’s 18 during the 1998 Bay Hill Invitational ranks higher since 1983 on the PGA TOUR.

“No such thing as what if,” Na said. “But, let’s say I made 5 or 6 on that hole, I’m looking really good at this tournament, thinking I got a morning tee time and go low tomorrow.”

Instead, he’ll enter the second round with an 80 on the scorecard.

“I think I handled myself pretty well,” said Na, who made three birdies and no bogeys the rest of his round. “My play just shows that 4 under — 3 under on the rest of the way in, whatever I did. I hit a lot of good shots and didn’t make another bogey afterwards. It just shows you how well I took it.”

Does Na wish he did anything different, like going back to the tee instead of trying to hack his way out of the woods?

Of course.

”I wish I went back and re-teed it again and I might have made 8,” Na continued. “That’s 4 over. That’s what, even par or something?

“I mean it’s a lot of what ifs and what could have been. The only thing I can do is learn from this and hopefully it doesn’t happen again.”

PLAY-BY-PLAY OF NA’S 12-OVER 16 ON NO. 9 AT TPC SAN ANTONIO

 

Shot Shot/description 1-2 Tee shot right. Went down and found ball and declared an unplayable lie. 3 Went back to the tee box and hit another tee shot which went right in to the woods. Then hit a provisional left (Abandoned provisional). Found second tee shot on the right and played it. 4-5 Played ball in the woods and hit a tree and the ball hit himself and took a one shot penalty. 6 Took unplayable where ball came to rest. 7 Hit ball in woods. 8 Hit ball in woods (Left-handed and missed ball). 9 Hit ball in woods (Left-handed and advanced ball). 10 Hit ball in woods (barely moved the ball). 11 Hit ball in woods and did not get out of the trees. 12 Hit ball in woods and advanced to the rough. 13 Hit ball from woods in to rough. 14 Played from rough to the fringe. 15 Played from fringe on to green. 16 Made putt from 5 feet, 10 inches.  

There's hope for all of us then!!  Taking the positives it will only go down as a '1 putt' hole on his stats

Agreed, Jim, but he did miss out on both the FIR and GIR, didn't he.

Ha ha, yes just missed out on those John!  In fact looking at it, he didn't actually hit the fairway at all in any of the 16 shots, pretty impressive!

Just seen the YouTube video of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWTXoNzuk8c

Feel sorry for the lad...but its great bouncebackability to then not drop a shot in the remaining 9 holes!  He still didn't post the highest round either!

There's a player who made a 13 on the Par 3 12th at Augusta in one of the Masters!

Floody are you going for the most multiple posts!!!!!1