Jason Day Fuming After Sawgrass Double Bogey Declaring: “It’s A Joke!”

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World No. 1 Jason Day was fuming and hurling his ball into the water after taking a crippling double bogey ‘6’ at the sixth hole early into his third round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

Day found the green in regulation and landing his second shot just 18-feet from the hole but then proceeded to take four putts.

The reigning PGA Champion had been three shots clear of the field at the time.

After despatching his ball to the alligator-infested depths Day could clearly be heard on TV coverage for the $US 10.5m event saying: “What a joke!”.

Now whether the Aussie, who had earlier in the day set a new 36-hole low of 15-under par and one better than Greg Norman’s mark in 1994, was referring to his double bogey or was he referring to the pin placement we will not know till he finishes.

However fellow Australian Wayne ‘Radar’ Riley, and working for SKY Sports, slammed the pin placement on six for day three as ‘silly’.

Day bounced back to birdie the seventh but then horribly doubled the eighth hole on route to eventually posting a one over par 73.

“This was the toughest day I’ve ever had to play in my life,” said Day.

“The greens got a little bit out of hand on the front side. Some of the pin locations were a little iffy with how quick the greens were. I was very shocked … That’s all you could do, just try to survive. Talk about slow play. They make the course nearly unplayable.”

The Australian finished the day with a 14-under total of 202, having earlier returned to complete the weather-delayed second round. His second round 66 gave him a tournament record-low of 129 at the halfway mark.

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan started the third round with three straight birdies on his way to a 67 and a share of second place with German Alex Cejka (72) and American Ken Duke (65) at 10-under.

Duke and Matsuyama were the only players to break 69 on a day when 76 of the world’s best players combined for 149 three-putts, almost two per player. Nobody had a bogey-free round as the field shot an average score of 75.6 strokes.

 

 

 



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