JT Poston cards septuple bogey at Travelers heres how it happened

Sometimes it’s just not your day, and for J.T.Poston, that was the case on the final day of the Travels Championship. What started as a good drive on the 13th hole at TPC River Highlands turned into a nightmare for the 33-year-old as he would go on to septuple bogey. After Poston’s drive into the fairway, he sent his second shot into a bunker on the right side of the green and things only got worse from there.

Next, his shot out of the bunker came up way short, putting him 59 feet from the hole and then his fourth shot rolled over the green into the water. He needed to take a penalty drop and his next shot with a sand wedge was short and rolled back into the water, necessitating another penalty drop. “It’s not really rough, where you can kind of blast it out,” Poston told Golfweek.“It’s into the grain, but it looks like you can get enough golf ball on it, which is why I kept trying to hit a good chip.”However, Poston couldn’t escape the water yet again and had to drop for a third time after another chip ended up rolling back. On his 10th shot, he was finally able to get the ball onto the green, but missed a subsequent putt on his 11th shot and finally drained a putt from 8 inches for a 12 on the hole. The 13th hole was a par 5, and two holes later, he found himself finishing with a double bogey on the par-4 15th hole. Poston finished the day with a 76 and put him in 69th place in the field of 72. Asked if he ever thought about putting the ball out of the rough, he didn’t seem keen on the idea. “Putting it, I feel like it’s just going to hop and that takes all the speed out of it.

And you’ve got this big false front you got to get it over,” he said.“So my worry with trying to putt it was it would not have enough speed to get.

really get there.Yeah, I mean, obviously, in hindsight, I would have just hit to 12 feet and make by seven, but it’s one of those where, like, you feel like you can hit the shot, and so you try and ex...