Sometimes you witness something in the game of golf that makes you sit back in awe. Friday featured one of those moments for Austrian golfer Matthias Schwab at The Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Schwab — who sits just on the right side of the projected cut line at 1-over as Round 2 was suspended due to inclement weather — saw two of the most unlikely outcomes one can see in a PGA Tour event on one shot.
On Hole 2, Schwab missed a fairway shot left, which bounced off the cart path and somehow landed in the golf cart of a Sky Sports crew that was covering him.
You wouldn't believe this story if there wasn't video. @Schwab_Matth’s shot landed and stuck in a moving golf cart driven by a @SkySportsGolf crew covering Schwab.
They jumped into a live report and documented the ruling, which included a "one in a million" drop. pic.twitter.com/mpAFc9VZO8
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 10, 2023
After the bizarre situation, a PGA official came in to make a ruling. He had Schwab mark the location of his ball under the cart, which had come to a dead stop.
Schwab then took a drop at that spot, and something even less likely happened: Despite the downhill slope of the cart path, the ball bounced and then landed exactly where it had dropped.
“Probably if we would have tried this we wouldn’t have made it in a million times,” Schwab remarked.
It’s truly a sequence that would sound fabricated if it weren’t all documented on video. It just goes to show that anything can happen out on the course — no matter how unlikely.
