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Tommy Fleetwood turned near-disaster into sudden success throughout his closing spherical of the PGA Championship. He almost drilled a volunteer on the course with a wayward shot on the seventh gap.
The preliminary trajectory of that shot was removed from his goal. With a bit of luck, he was in a position to keep away from a penalty and document an eagle.
Fleetwood was not in competition to win the event. He was 14 strokes again when he lined as much as take his tee shot on the Par 5 seventh.
Along with his second shot, he tried to search out the inexperienced, which was situated subsequent to a water hazard. That shot sailed properly previous the pin earlier than careening off a rock and bouncing again in direction of the outlet. It virtually took an unsuspecting volunteer employee’s head off!
In some way, the shot not solely prevented the water, nevertheless it then rolled safely again onto the inexperienced. It arrange an eagle putt, which he sank moments later.
As talked about, the disastrous shot almost took out an on-course volunteer. The staffer was fortunate the ball missed her because the ball sailed over her head. One other PGA Championship goer didn’t see the identical destiny!
On Saturday, a spectator was nailed by a wayward Jon Rahm shot. The sound of the ball ricocheting off the viewer’s cranium was very audible to bystanders.
Jon Rahm’s strategy took a giant bounce after hitting a fan. Fortunately, the fan appeared alright and Rahm gifted him an autographed glove. pic.twitter.com/r1kAuchLju
— Golf on CBS ⛳ (@GolfonCBS) Might 17, 2025
The fan gave the impression to be okay. Rahm spoke on the scary scenario after the actual fact.
“I’m very impressed,” he mentioned. “I haven’t seen a ball ricochet like that shortly… I advised [my caddie], ‘Get the Sharpie prepared as a result of I’m going to have to present him one thing, like a signed glove…’ He took it nice. I advised him, if he was European and grew up enjoying soccer, he may’ve aimed a bit of higher to get it nearer to the outlet.”
Rahm cracked a joke with the golf fan figuring out that he was alright. He gave him some signed memorabilia as a means of claiming sorry.
Neither Rahm nor Tommy Fleetwood performed properly sufficient to win. Rahm completed in a tie for eighth with a rating of -4. Fleetwood completed forty first at +2 for the weekend. No bystanders have been considerably harmed on this 12 months’s version of the PGA Championship.
