Triumph in the face of adversity, even minor adversity like a greenside bunker, is what brings us back.
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He pulled himself together on 18, nearly holing out from a greenside bunker.
The controversy began on the 15th hole when Woods's third shot hit the flagstick and bounced back into the greenside water hazard.
Micheel's approach at 36 ricocheted off the grandstand into a greenside bunker, but Karlsson was unable to take advantage and followed him in.
Janet Howard, head teacher of Greenside Primary, the Pudsey school which Ben Smith attended, said staff and pupils were "in shock and deeply saddened".
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His tee shot on the 17th left him out of position and after finding a greenside bunker he dropped his first shot of the day.
Kuchar made an 11-foot birdie putt off the back fringe at No. 2 before a bogey on the next hole when he took two shots from a greenside bunker.
The players returned to the 18th for sudden death and Casey two-putted from 25ft for birdie after Wilson went from one greenside bunker into another to card a bogey six.
Havret found sand off his tee shot and was forced to lay up short of the green with his second shot, but McIlroy also ended in a greenside bunker with his approach.
His chip shot then hit the edge of a greenside bunker, rolling into the sand, and he failed to get out of there on his next shot before finally blasting to 6 feet.
Playing the 18th holes once again, Harrington was the only one of the three hopefuls to find the green in regulation in the play-off with Hamill putting his approach shot into a greenside bunker.
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.
Harrington had withstood a front nine charge from Woods, who went out in five-under 30, but the Dubliner made a series of hashed shots on the 16th, culminating in hacking his fourth from the greenside rough into the water.
Allenby made a 10-foot birdie putt at the short 16th to keep him in contention and the players were level heading to the 18th before Woods squeezed through with a last-hole birdie, coming out of a greenside bunker to seven feet.
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