Of the first 34 players to tackle the 13th only one got anywhere near the hole with his approach.
Scott got an inkling that the decades of Australian bad luck here might be changing on the 13th hole when his approach shot rolled toward Rae's Creek but somehow held up in the grass on the steep bank.
Tiger Woods suffered a blow almost as cruel as Guan's on the 15th hole, when his perfectly judged approach shot hit the pin and bounced into the water.
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But Couples became unglued on the seventh hole, when he sent his approach shot over the back of the green, chipped off the front side, then watched an uphill putt slide up and then back down.
George's last year, won on the second hole with a birdie after a remarkable approach shot from the bunker.
But the White House has done nothing to develop and deploy space-based missile interceptors, with the Brilliant Pebbles approach remaining in a black hole.
Then an approach shot on the 15th hole Friday deflected off the flag and into the water, which led to a drop.
His daughter made it so with a refusal to lose, even when she failed to cash in on her best shot of the day, an approach on the first extra hole that left her with a 6-foot putt to win.
However, the outcome was far from certain when Casey, 41st in the world at the start of 2009 and seventh entering the tournament, found a greenside bunker with his approach to the par five final hole.
But the 36-year-old Englishman's approach to the final play-off hole, the ninth, went into the hospitality area and he was forced to take a free drop.
In the aftermath people talked a lot about sportsmanship and class, about the thumbs-up that Cabrera gave to Scott walking down the fairway of the second playoff hole after Scott had matched Cabrera's skillful approach.
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After Jeong pulled within three holes on No. 14, the 21-year-old Korean hit his approach shot on the par-4 15th hole to within eight feet of the pin.
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The left-hander hit brilliant eagles on 13 and 14 and came close to making it an unprecedented three in a row when a superb approach shot on 15 rolled just past the hole.
The conditions there approach the relentless, overwhelming power of a black hole, which swallows even light.
In considering the well-trapped and slick greens of Winged Foot, Casper took the opposite approach on the 215-yard par-three third hole.
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But he took three shots from inside a radius of about 5 yards after his approach shot from a left fairway bunker stopped behind the hole.
Uihlein responded by hitting his own 100-yard approach to within four feet, then clinched the match on the next hole.
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"You just see that his approach is good, and he's been great in that four-hole for us, " Girardi said of Hafner.
"You just see that his approach is good, and he's been great in that four-hole for us, " Yankees manager Joe Girardi said.
Faldo was four behind with only six holes to play, but caught Floyd and triumphed on the second extra hole - as he had the year before against Scott Hoch - when the American pulled his approach into the water.
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