Wesley Bryan hits his second shot on Friday on the eighth gap at Innisbrook.
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From behind a bush. In your knees. Then, in your subsequent and last gap, stuff it to three ft. All whereas taking part in on your PGA Tour life.
Surf the Bryan Bros Golf YouTube web page, and there are dozens of movies that seize {the golfing} lifetime of brothers Wesley and George Bryan. Matches, trick photographs, you identify it. On Friday, Wesley added one other.
Miracle.
Wesley can also be a Tour professional, and at this week’s Valspar Championship, he’s taking part in in his last occasion on a significant medical exemption. Which implies this: End at 51st alone, and he secures conditional Tour standing. However end sixth alone, and Wesley Bryan retains his card.
Solely, with two holes left at Innisbrook, and sitting on the minimize line, Bryan double-crossed an iron over the par-3 eighth inexperienced and right into a bush.
“That’s not good,” analyst Gary Koch stated on the Golf Channel broadcast.
However this was.
Bryan kneeled down into the bush. He choked down on an iron and slapped his ball out, avoiding the greenside bunkers. From 34 yards out, he pitched to 2 ft and cleaned up for a bogey 4.
Now one over the cutline with one gap to play, Bryan hit simply three extra photographs. On the par-4 ninth, after a drive down the left aspect of the green, he hit his strategy to three ft and rolled within the putt for a 3.
Six strokes. When seven would have despatched him dwelling. He’ll begin Saturday tied for forty ninth with a whopping 23 different gamers.
“ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?!?! WE STILL HAVE HOPE!!!!!!!” the Bryan Bros Golf Twitter account wrote shortly after the knees shot.
