Enter if you dare.
The 17th at TPC Sawgrass had its highs.
ANNC: He’s got it going. And made it! What a putt!
And what a shank! Wrong island Brendon Todd!
ANNC: He just dropped the club and laughed.
The carnage was real.
35 balls in the water on Thursday alone!
ANNC: Uh oh. He doesn’t like it.
Kevin Na walked it in from the drop-zone.
Then made a zero-putt eight!
ANNC: At least he ended on a high note.
Ben An carded an 11 on Thursday, the second highest score ever on the Island Green.
ANNC: I’ve lost track of one of the balls that went in the water. He actually hit four.
But it’s all about how you bounce back. The next day, An was pretty pumped when he
was safe on his first try.
ANNC: So I guess we get to give him most improved.
Thursday’s 35 balls in the water here, at 17 were the second most all-time in the ShotLink era.
The next three rounds combined didn’t even add up to that.
It was a Good, Bad & Unusual week here at The 2021 PLAYERS Championship, from the bounce-backs
at the Island Green, to JT’s come-from-behind victory.
It was JT’s weekend.
ANNC: And Justin Thomas has it! Eagle at 11 to take the lead at THE PLAYERS.
Justin Thomas kept us on the edge all the way until the end.
ANNC: He’s playing a big right-to-left looper. Easy! It got close yesterday. Oh boy! That
got an incredible first bounce. It could’ve veered left but It looks like it’s going
to stay dry for the second day in a row.
ANNC: He was feeling sick about it. Is it too late to have a twirl? There it is!
That’s so good. Wow!
Thomas matched the lowest closing 36-hole total in PLAYERS Championship history.
And he got there because Sunday’s final group had a few hiccups!
BRYSON: Oh, my!
ANNC: That was nearly a shank as well. Well, it was but…
He did it on Saturday too!
The iron didn’t exactly go as planned.
DECHAMBEAU: No! Gosh left it off. Gosh! I just whiffed it so bad.
Our reaction to this week.
Wow is right for these next shots.
Unusual or just unlucky? Dustin Johnson is just too good.
ANNC: The tracer shows us it was on a great line. It was on too good a line.
Hits the flagstick. Can’t do that! And goes in the water.
There are unlucky ricochets and then there are LUCKY ricochets.
Phil was lucky.
Off the trees to five feet.
PHIL: Any questions?
PHIL: That’s like career s*** right there. I will remember that.
And Brendon Todd had a bar tab to remember. I wonder which shot cost him more, that shank
or his ace?
We had two aces on Friday at TPC Sawgrass. Denny McCarthy with an unforgettable moment.
MCCARTHY: I was pretty surprised, I think I let out, like a, “Woo!” I don’t know
exactly what I let out but I looked around and everyone was telling me it went in.
Here at 17, there’s a camera on the second island with the signature tree. And there’s
only one way to get out there.
ANNC: There’s the cameraman that actually sits on the island, Joe Ferlic. And he’s
going to tell us, he’s using the snow shovel, ‘Why is that Joe?’ That’s because the
old motor is broken. International signal for “the motor is broke”.
He’d rather be fishing. Now the big question is, where did you get the snow shovel from
in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida?
This golf course is defeating. Louis Oosthuizen gave away his driver mid-round on Saturday.
Apparently, Louis didn’t need it. He hit 3-wood, 3-wood on 16 on Sunday to setup a
13-footer.
And he made it for eagle!
Usually you’d be pretty pumped to start off your day with an eagle hole-out, right?
ANNC: And Harman. Wow! Harman’s going to hole it out to start the day!
Not Brian Harman, it’s those par saves that do it for him.
ANNC: And Brian Harman, who started his day with a hole-out is psyched with that one!
These Florida finishes have been crazy. And we still have one more week left of the Florida
Swing, heading south of here to The Honda Classic.
I’ll have your recaps all week long in The Takeaway on PGATOUR.com and social media.