Watch: Gary Woodland hits uncommon topped tee shot at BMW whereas in rivalry

Gary Woodland picked a nasty time to appear like considered one of us.

Woodland cold-topped his tee shot on the 436-yard, par 4 ninth gap at Bellerive Nation Membership in St. Louis on Sunday within the remaining spherical of the BMW Championship, the second leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

Woodland was making a run on the lead, having carded three birdies on the entrance 9 to trim Wyndham Clark’s result in one when he tried to hit a stinger off the tee with a fairway wooden however topped it 97 yards right into a creek that “has by no means been in play, any match they’ve ever had right here,” mentioned Jim Nantz.

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Woodland was 14 beneath on the time however along with his tee shot proved pricey as he made a double-bogey six. 

Woodland, 42, gained the Texas Childrens Hospital Open in April for his first win since 2019. Although enjoying in Missouri, the Kansas native known as this week his house sport and has an enormous following of Jayhawks in his group. He is a local of Topeka, which CBS’s Colt Knost reminded viewers that residents of that high-quality metropolis wish to confer with it as “Prime Metropolis.” By no means extra so than when Woodland teed off on the ninth.

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