'23 over': Aussie comes dead last in golf calamity

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By Damien McCartney and AP

While 1 Aussie is successful contention to triumph The Players Championship, different has finished plum last.

After carding a 10-over 82 successful circular one, Lucas Herbert came backmost connected Friday and fired a disastrous 13-over 85 successful circular two.

Starting connected the 10th, Herbert arrived astatine the celebrated Island Green par-3 17th - his 8th spread of the time - conscionable one-over for the day, but proceeded to enactment 2 balls into the water, and his 3rd from the tee was fortunate to clasp the precise borderline of the island.

He chipped connected and two-putted for eight.

Then connected the par-four 4th - his 13th spread for the time - helium deed a thrust into the near rough, and past proceeded to deed 3 balls into the creek abbreviated of the green.

He yet managed to clasp the greenish and walked disconnected with a nine.

He finished astatine 23-over successful 143rd, 9 shots down Max McGreevy and Nick Watney successful a necktie for 141st astatine 14-over.

For 36 holes, his paper contained scores of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

Jason Day, who has softly worked his mode backmost into the apical 50 successful the world, played alongside Herbert. The different subordinate of the radical was Aaron Wise, who successful the archetypal circular made a 10 connected the 18th spread by hitting 3 tee shots into the water.

Day felt severely for some of them, but tried to support his focus. For the astir portion it worked. And past determination was the seventh, wherever helium was successful the mediate of the fairway and made 1 atrocious swing.

"Stupid enough, I was walking up 7 and I was talking to Luke, my caddie. I said, 'It's truly casual to marque a speedy treble here.' And I ended up doubling the hole. But that's my point. It doesn't instrumentality overmuch to get yourself retired of position. And erstwhile you're retired of position, past it's not similar an casual bogey. Most of the time, you're staring astatine a double."

Meanwhile, Min Woo Lee's beardown debut showing continues. He volition decorativeness his 2nd circular connected the par-4 seventh - his 16th spread - and is conscionable 2 shots backmost from person Christiaan Bezuidenhout .

On a time of carnage astatine TPC Sawgrass, Jordan Spieth looked definite to miss the chopped but got a interruption helium ne'er imagined.

Spieth needed to birdie his past spread astatine the par-5 ninth, but his tee changeable was slicing truthful acold to close it was headed for the cart path, and past h2o that shouldn't adjacent beryllium successful play.

And past it was successful the fairway. That shot bounced disconnected the limb of a instrumentality and went distant from the h2o and to abbreviated grass.

"Needing to astir apt birdie to marque the cut, I can't truly birdie having to driblet it implicit successful the close unsmooth implicit determination and hitting my third," Spieth said. "It would person been a one-in-a-million make. Instead, I ended up making a 3."

He ripped a 3-wood from 254m to the close collar of the green, and past chipped successful for an eagle to bounds the harm to a 75 and guarantee a spot successful the mediate of the battalion going into the weekend.

"I got an highly fortunate interruption connected 9 oregon I wouldn't beryllium playing the weekend," Spieth said.

"Trying to get that guy's accusation and spot virtually immoderate helium wants this weekend. Because everything from present connected retired is due to the fact that it deed him."

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