I'm supposed to focus only on the flagstick and visualize the ball getting there.

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The 14-time major winner hit a shot on the 15th hole that ricocheted off the flagstick and bounced into a pond.

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The controversy began on the 15th hole when Woods's third shot hit the flagstick and bounced back into the greenside water hazard.

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Tiger had three options to hit his next approach from the fairway after his previous shot unluckily hit the flagstick and caromed into the water.

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He acknowledged later that, still rattled by the flagstick incident, he "wasn't even really thinking" and was erroneously trying to engineer a distance that best suited his next shot.

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Speculation mounted on Saturday morning that Woods might be disqualified for taking a drop in the wrong place after his ball had ricocheted off the flagstick on 15th green and back into the water hazard at the front.

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To back up a little for context, Woods suffered one of the worst bits of luck in the tournament Friday when his first approach shot into 15, perfectly struck, hit the flagstick and bounded back into the green-fronting lake.

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When Jack Nicklaus pulled out his 1-iron at the 238-yard 17th hole at Pebble Beach in the final round of the 1972 U.S. Open, he knew one thing: That ball was going right at the flagstick. (It landed within inches of the cup.) The same goes for entrepreneurs, investors, soldiers, artists, spouses and all the rest of us making resolutions for 2013.

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