PGA Tour golfer Thomas Detry has a day to forget as he suffers a SIX-putt meltdown at the Cognizant Classic and cards a QUADRUPLE bogey eight en route to finishing dead last
- Detry hit the green in two shots, but needed six putts to complete the hole
- That caused him to drop to last place in the Cognizant rankings
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Belgian golfer Thomas Detry went into the second round of the Cognizant Classic knowing he was in danger of missing the cut and needing a rebound after shooting two over par on Thursday.
But his round came crashing down around him on the sixth hole when he hit a quadruple-bogey eight, thanks in part to six putts.
After reaching the green in two, Detry had a 55-foot putt that he blew just past the hole, leaving him with a five-foot putt for par.
Detry pulled his par putt to the left of the hole and that’s where the meltdown really began.
He walked confidently to his ball and didn’t even put his feet on the ground before hitting his bogey putt, which hit the back of the cup and popped out.
Thomas Detry needed six putts to complete the sixth hole on Friday (above: his seventh shot)
Detry hands his putter to his caddy after hitting eight shots on the sixth hole
Detry finished the hole at eight over par and finished the day last in the tournament
Detry stopped putting his feet down and tapped it, but the ball rolled back out of the cup and came to rest almost exactly where his par putt began.
Before shot number seven, Detry took a deep breath to calm himself and hit the putt – but for the third time in a row, the putt came out of the hole.
It landed less than a foot away from the cup and he tapped it to finally end a disaster of a hole.
The sixth hole at PGA National was something of an albatross (not the good kind) around Detry’s neck this week.
In the first round he scored a double-bogey six – the only double of the day for the Belgian.
You can imagine that he wished this was the same luck on Friday. Unfortunately, in addition to the quadruple bogey, he also hit a double on the par-4 14th hole.
Add in five bogeys and just two birdies, and Detry ended up shooting nine over for the round and 11 over for the tournament.
That left him dead last at 143rd, finishing four shots behind the next worst golfers who were tied at seven over.