No. 18 at Pebble Beach Golf Links is one of the most famous finishing holes in all of golf.
The dogleg left, par-5 hole is a thing of beauty that hugs the Pacific Ocean on its way back to the clubhouse.
For Lucas Bjerregaard, it was a house of horrors during the first round of the U.S. Open on Thursday.
His frustrating sequence, via the USGA:
- Tee shot, his first stroke, goes out of bounds into the ocean
- Tee shot, his fourth stroke, goes out of bounds into the ocean
- Tee shot, his sixth stroke, goes out of bounds right 299 yards from the tee
- Tee shot, his eighth stroke on the hole, lands in in the middle of the fairway, 274 yards from the hole
- Shot from fairway, his ninth stroke, goes 208 yards to the right fairway and lands 77 yards out
- Shot from fairway, his 10th stroke, travels 77 yards to the back left of the green and lands just 18 inches from the hole
- Putt to hole, his 11th shot, rolls in the hole.
Hurray!
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Even the online shot tracker had a difficult time keeping track of it all (and clearly isn’t correct, as you can see).
There was some initial confusion, though, as the scoreboard showed him having made a 13.
But no, it was just an 11.
That followed bogeys on Nos. 11, 12 and 17 and the 11 dropped him to 9-over, which tied him at the time for last place with Patton Kizzire, C.T. Pan, Zac Blair and amateur Noah Norton.
A birdie on No. 4 for Bjerregaard, however, got him out of the cellar.
He finished 9-over for the day with an 80.
But the 11 is not the worst score ever on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach.
In 2000, John Daly posted a 14 in the first round. Richard Ehrmanntraut scored a 10 in 1972’s first round. With Bjerregaard’s 11, there is now a threesome of golfers who carded a double-digit score on the 18th hole.
