Woods' approach shot on the 240th found a greenside bunker.
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Approach shot is to 12 feet and he drains the putt.
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He then hoisted his approach shot over a tree to four feet.
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An agitated baboon charged Luke Donald of England in 2014 during an approach shot.
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She said that she had almost holed an approach shot during the first round too.
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But Vilas looked back at the linesman, keen for him to call Connors' approach shot wide.
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Tiger Woods's approach shot on the fourth hole skips into a bunker right of the green.
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At the next hole, another short approach shot — 123 yards — stopped 45 feet from the hole.
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Compounding his woes, his approach shot flew left of the green and went out of bounds.
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Her approach shot spun back about 9 feet from the hole, and she calmly sank the putt.
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Williams had several egregious unforced errors, capped by her driving an easy forehand approach shot well long.
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Tremendous approach shot on the 218th hole from Tiger Woods stops about eight feet past the hole.
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Müller often uses his slice backhand as an approach shot, keeping the ball low as he rushes forward.
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It wasn't until her approach shot on the third hole that she was informed of the two-stroke penalty.
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But he pulled his approach shot into thick rough for a closing bogey and instead finished tied for second.
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But even those players typically pave their way to the net with an extremely powerful approach shot or serve.
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The only time he winced was when a putt did not fall or an approach shot missed the green.
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In 2014, an irritated baboon bounded by Luke Donald of England on his approach shot during the second round.
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Tiger birdied the final par 5 of the day after an impressive approach shot, bringing him to three-over par.
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Friday, he hit a fan in the head with his approach shot before finishing with a six on opening hole.
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However, Woods left his approach shot in the bunker and was unable to get up and down to save par.
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He was two for two on serve-and-volley points, and five for five coming in behind an approach shot.
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Wilpon, an avid golfer, caught the corner of the green with his approach shot; Cespedes muscled his ball over it.
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Rory McIlroy's tee shot on the fifth hole was wayward left and an approach shot landed short of the green.
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Woods landed his 193-yard approach shot to the fifth green 32 feet from the hole and three-putted for bogey.
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On the fourth hole, Day's approach shot missed the green and trundled down a swale about 15 yards from the putting surface.
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Fowler dropped his approach shot on 18 just behind the hole and sank the 8-footer, sending a roar across TPC Scottsdale.
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On the seventh and last, he came forward again, but his chipped backhand approach shot on the run failed to clear the net.
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That wound up making the difference in the tournament, as Mr Woods muffed both his approach shot on the 18th and his putt for par.
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" After Cantlay hit an approach shot on the par-4 seventh to within four feet of the pin, Roth's father, Gary, exclaimed, "That a kid!
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He appeared to find another gear at that point, striking his approach shot to the 17th green to less than three feet for another birdie.
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Perhaps it is too bad he did not remove the stick for his 195-yard approach shot to the final hole at Augusta National on Thursday.
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At the par-five 18th, his approach shot fell short of the green and rolled back into the water for his third bogey of the day.
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After hitting his final approach shot he held his arms aloft in celebration and hugged his caddie, assured finally that there would be no late disaster.
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An otherwise excellent round was marred only by a bizarre incident at the 16th hole, where his approach shot struck branches of a tree and disappeared.
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Later, he fired a 260-yard six-iron approach shot to the back of the green at the par-five fourth and drained the eagle putt.
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Over all, Nadal has hit a forehand groundstroke winner 18 times as an approach shot, looking to finish the point at the front of the court.
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Monfils, who was at the baseline and headed into the right corner, skidded to stop, then ran in and put away a crosscourt approach-shot winner.
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"I must admit my eyes are stinging," said Casey, who hit an eagle three after a brilliant approach shot at the 14th in his flawless 68.
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The Korean birdied the par-four 18th to put the heat on Green and the Australian stumbled with a poor approach shot on the final hole.
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That meant more to him than whether they could crush a drive or drop an approach shot on a dime (and they both could in their days).
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A triple-bogey at the fourth hole, where his approach shot found water, set back Daly's cause but he bounced back with an eagle at the next.
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Woods then hit a solid approach shot to reach the green in two, missed a long birdie putt before rolling in a routine three-footer for par.
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His approach shot fell short of the bunker, and it took him three shots to get up and down and finish with a bogey and a 64.
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His drive ended up behind a tree on the 10th, and he figured that his 9-iron would snap on the follow-through of his approach shot.
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Rose got a lucky break in the playoff when his approach shot landed in a skybox but ricocheted back toward the hole and stopped just off the green.
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American Julian Suri arrived at the par-four 18th in the lead but failed to clear the water hazard with his approach shot and made a double-bogey.
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On the fifth hole, for example, Koepka pounded his tee shot 20 yards past Woods and then knocked his approach shot to within 16 feet of the hole.
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Herbert saved par on the first extra hole after hitting his approach shot into the water, before returning to the same green to roll in the winning birdie.
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The Englishman's approach shot from 235 yards at the par five landed just in front of the green and rolled up to inside a foot of the hole.
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Needing to respond, Johnson miscued his tee shot at 16, popped his approach shot into a greenside bunker and missed a seven-foot putt for bogey number five.
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With rain picking up, Fowler hit his approach shot right of the green, and his chip skittered past the flag into the water, incurring a two-shot penalty.
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A poor drive on the par-five 15th forced Mr Molinari into an awkward approach shot, which bounced off a tree and wound up in the water as well.
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She lofted an approach shot that came to rest about five feet from the pin and calmly drained a putt for a birdie on the par-2954 18th hole.
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Following that reprieve, he made amends in the playoff, saying he focused on a target for his approach shot and blocked the significance of the occasion from his mind.
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With the jitters out of the way, the 27-year-old from Arkansas proceeded to hit a nice approach shot and then sank a 15-foot putt dead center.
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Triple major champion Padraig Harrington (67) then went from agony to ecstasy when he chipped in from 40 yards after finding water with his approach shot at the 10th.
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HONG KONG — President Xi Jinping of China is not expected to be strolling the manicured fairways of the Trump International Golf Club on Thursday, sizing up his approach shot.
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He found some confidence on the greens by sinking a 25-footer at the fourth and then almost holed his approach shot at the next for a tap-in birdie.
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Thomas hit his approach shot into the hazard and bogeyed the par-five 18th in his round of two-under 70 for a 54-hole aggregate of 193-under 201.
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The convenience element was amplified during this U.S. Open, where finding the right spot to stay required as much creative thinking as landing an approach shot on Shinnecock's devilish greens.
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After hitting his approach shot to 25 feet at the par-four hole, Woods shockingly four-putted for a double-bogey — the 13th four-putt of his PGA Tour career.
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But a double-bogey at the fifth, where he had to take a penalty stroke after yanking his approach shot into a hazard, took the wind out of his sails.
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His horrible lie off a pulled approach shot stood to damage his second round in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines and imperil his chances of making the cut.
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He had already made a double-bogey 23 on the 228-yard, par-4 fourth hole, where he also pulled his approach shot into a hazard left of the green.
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Stenson hit a mighty approach shot from 210 yards that almost trickled in at the par-five, and the tap-in eagle gave him the sole lead from fast-finishing Rahm.
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He birdied his first four holes and then added an eagle at the par-five 14th, his fifth hole, where his wedged approach shot took one bounce before disappearing into the cup.
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Teeing off three hours after Spieth, the swashbuckling Aussie hit a pair of bombs on the par-5 second hole, lacing his approach shot 257 yards to within 93 feet for eagle.
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Norman came to the 18th tee tied with Nicklaus, but pushed his approach shot and missed a par putt that would have forced a playoff, foreshadowing his great collapse a decade later.
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Casey shot his third straight 2000 during Sunday's third round, capped by an eagle on No. 18 after his 232-yard approach shot landed two and a half feet from the hole.
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After narrowly missing birdie putts on his opening two holes Woods hit his approach shot at the par-five third to about 212 feet and went on to tap in for birdie.
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He began with a superb approach shot to the first, the ball spinning back on the green and almost into the cup to leave himself an easy birdie putt to win the hole.
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When Schauffele's approach shot landed well short of the pin on the 18th green, Molinari began hugging the members of his team and his wife, Valentina, who was crying behind her dark sunglasses.
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A clutch approach shot with the ball below his feet that set up Long's closing putt was key for the American, who made seven birdies, three of them in the last five holes.
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Mickelson said his approach shot to his first hole had been an early candidate for "worst shot of the year" but he made amends by pitching in his third shot for an adventurous birdie.
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She completed her charge to the front by threading her approach shot from the rough at the first hole under a tree, running the ball up to tap-in range to go five-under.
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"I did not see it like that, dude," he said to caddie Michael Greller as his approach shot from the rough at the par-four fourth flew further than expected and over the green.
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Hull delivered a near-perfect approach shot to seal a birdie at the 13th hole and that set up a decisive 2 & 1 victory over the U.S. pairing of Megan Khang and Annie Park.
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A brilliant approach shot to the sixth hole helped him grab a share of the lead but he dropped a shot at the eighth to slip back to nine-under heading into the weekend.
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The 36-year old Californian missed a six-foot putt for par on the 17th and then hit an approach shot on the 18th into corporate tents off to the left of the green.
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He wobbled — sometimes literally — on the final holes but finished with an impressive up-and-down par on the 18th hole after he sprayed his approach shot into the crowd adjacent to the green.
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Japan's Masahiro Kawamura needed to hole his approach shot to the 18th green to force a playoff but ended up short and finished a stroke behind on eight-under after a final round 73.
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At the fourth extra hole she found a greenside bunker with her approach shot and could only make bogey, while Ariya produced a stunning up-and-down to make par and clinch the title.
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A radar-like approach shot to the 18th then left him a six-footer for a birdie and, after the ball nestled in the cup, he turned and hailed the applause of the huge grandstand.
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In the 1996 movie Tin Cup, the main character was in contention playing the final hole at a U.S. Open, only to run up a 12 after repeatedly finding the water with his approach shot.
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Her approach shot on the par-four hole found the rough above the hole on the sloping green and her chip sped past the hole and ran down the steep slope back into the fairway.
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On Friday, Li birdied two of his final three holes to make the cut with a shot to spare, even hitting the flagstick with his approach shot at his 17th hole, the par-four eighth.
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The 21-year-old from Seoul put an exclamation mark on his day by stiffing his approach shot to three feet for a birdie at the last as he posted an 18-under 192 total.
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The signs were positive at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, where he hit the first 17 greens in regulation, before missing the putting surface with his approach shot at the last for his only bogey.
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Casey said that during the 2011 playoff between Luke Donald and Lee Westwood, the 18th hole, a sharp dogleg right with an approach shot over a small lake, underscored the deficiencies of the course changes.
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Tiger Woods was clad in his hallmark red for the final round at the Farmers Insurance Open last month when he took a compact swipe at his 141-yard approach shot on the second hole.
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Berrettini, who defeated home favorite Jan-Lennard Struff in the semi-final, grabbed an early break point in the opening set, as the 18-year-old erred by pushing a backhand approach shot into the net.
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Smith, an Australian, hit his approach shot within a couple of feet of the pin, and he sank a birdie putt on the par-5 18th hole to give himself and his Swedish teammate the victory.
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The birdies dried up after the world number five turned into the wind for the back nine, however, and he missed the green with his approach shot then three-putted for the double bogey at the 15th.
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Day, playing in Spieth's group, finished his terrific round by stepping to the par-5 ninth hole and hitting a safe 2-iron into a narrow fairway full of hazards to set up a makable approach shot.
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The first of those unforced errors came after he ripped his drive 300 yards over a fairway bunker at the par-four 10th, but inexplicably caught his 120-yard approach shot fat, coming up 30 yards short.
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Harms said he knew the two clubs Na was considering for the approach shot would put him over the green and while that proved correct, he felt the 34-year-old was vindicated by his spectacular chip.
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World number one McIlroy, the 2018 champion, made an inauspicious start when he plunked his approach shot into a lake at his second hole at Bay Hill, but he roared back with five birdies and an eagle.
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It was all over for Holmes when a wayward approach shot at the par-five 16th sailed 30 yards left of the green and Pieters celebrated with an extravagant fist pump when he sank his winning birdie putt.
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She blew a 30-0 lead with a tight forehand that landed just wide, a double fault, a mediocre backhand approach shot that Mertens slapped for a forehand winner, and then, with the tension rising, another double fault.
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After Woods missed the green with his approach shot at the par-4 17th hole, his par putt hung on the edge of the cup for a bogey that brought a groan from the crowd circling the green.
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After going five under par over five holes earlier in the round, Holmes bogeyed his final hole after a poor approach shot and shot six-under-par 65 on another perfect day in the desert at TPC Scottsdale.
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A birdie on 16, highlighted by a 138-yard approach shot to four feet from the hole, followed by a seven-foot putt on 18 for his eighth birdie of the round, left him alone in fourth at 14 under.
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If there were any nerves, they did not show them and after 26-year-old Olesen hit his approach shot to within inches of the hole at the 10th, his partner drained a much longer birdie putt in any case.
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Merritt, meanwhile, could have forced a playoff with a birdie at the last, but instead found a watery grave with his approach shot, ran up a double-bogey and tied for third with Swede Henrik Stenson, three shots off the pace.
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Evert was trying to serve out a well-contested 25-25, 245-45 victory Sunday on the concrete-laden stage named for Louis Armstrong when a solid approach shot sent her scurrying toward the right corner at 224-21975, deuce.
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Reed said afterward that he wasn't aware that his father and sister were there until the par-4 17th hole, when he was sizing up his approach shot and he noticed them standing along the rope line behind the green.
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Law duly completed a 2&1 victory on the 17th and sprinted down the 18th fairway just in time to see Pettersen, a surprise pick by Europe captain Catriona Matthew, hole an eight-foot birdie putt after a sensational approach shot.
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After finding the middle of the fairway with his drive, a pinpoint approach shot to within five feet set up the first of six birdies in eight holes as he reacquainted himself with a course on which he seems to thrive.
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Rose birdied the first hole to tie Gary Woodland for the lead on Sunday — they were three clear of the pack — but hit a poor approach shot into a bunker at the par-four second, made bogey and the dye had been cast.
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The five-times major champion was not alone in observing that the luck factor is greater at Sawgrass than many other courses when an approach shot misses the green, a good reason he said not to worry too much about practice rounds.
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His Oscar-winning 1958 documentary Glas best examples that approach: shot in crisp Technicolor, the film observes craftsmen blowing handmade crystal at the Royal Leerdam Glass Factory, featuring pure professionals who come to work in suits and light cigarettes off the hot glass.
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McIlroy played the 493-yard hole in four over par for the week, including a bogey Sunday when his approach shot landed behind a rock on the other the side of the creek that runs along the left side of the hole.
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On Golf CARNOUSTIE, Scotland — Phil Mickelson has played in 21842 British Opens, so he didn't look startled when a train rumbled into his field of vision as he prepared to hit his approach shot into the ninth green on Friday at the Carnoustie Golf Links.
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But he found enough daylight to punch the ball low off the pine straw with a 21-iron and onto the fairway, where he then hit a fine approach shot that landed high above the hole and rolled slowly back to within 222 feet of the pin.
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If the left-to-right putt from 12 foot for a fourth birdie in a row at the ninth hole showed his confidence on the greens, the approach shot which left him with a two-footer for his eighth birdie at the 18th was the perfect way to finish.
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Scott got an early chance to make up for his disappointing opening round of 73 but only hit his considerable stride on the back nine, where he picked up four birdies as well as an eagle courtesy of a brilliant four-iron approach shot at his 16th hole.
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Replaying the par-four 18th hole in front of a packed gallery at Royal Sydney, Hall landed his approach shot closest but slid his birdie putt wide of the hole, while Smith gave himself too much to do with a second shot to 35 feet from the pin.
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Louis Oosthuizen looked in trouble after swinging down onto a tree root with an approach shot at the second hole but the South African shook off the injury scare as a momentary jolt and said it did not impair him during the PGA Championship third round.
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Four birdies in a row from the 12th took the former world number one into a share of the lead but his progress was stalled by a bogey after a poor approach shot at the 17th and the missed six-footer on the final green left him with a 68.
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Murray hung his head in disgust after pulling his seven-iron approach shot at the par-five, fearing his ball would find a greenside bunker, but it barely cleared the sand before taking a big bounce and then a hard right turn, trickling down to within five feet of the hole.
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When he was battling the cut line on his inward nine, he made birdies on two of the North's most challenging holes: No. 3, a 241-yard par-3 where he hit a 5-wood and made an 18-footer, and No. 4, a 479-yard, dogleg-left par-4, where he missed the green with his approach shot but chipped in from the fringe.
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