Ouch! This video should come with a warning label.
Ariya Jutanugarn was playing the 72nd hole of the Chevron Championship with a one-shot lead. She blasted her second shot on the par-5 hole over the back of the green, a familiar spot for many players as they often get a free drop from the grandstands.
Jutanugarn, who hasn’t won a. tour event in four years and hasn’t won a major since 2018, then … flat out whiffed a chip shot. Reminder, she was ahead by a shot. Getting up and down for birdie would’ve essentially iced the first LPGA major championship of the year.
Scenes on the 72nd hole.
Ariya Jutanugarn struggles on her final hole and finishes with bogey to join the clubhouse leaders at 7-under.
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Instead, she hit the next chip shot past the hole, missed the putt and made bogey to fall back to seven-under-par total. That put her in a tie with Ruining Yin and Hyo Joo Kim with Mao Saigo and Lindy Duncan playing the 18th hole only one shot behind.
The ball actually moved about an inch, as you can see from the video. Because of that there seemed to be some confusion, players and fans wondering if Jutanugarn had even played a real shot or if she was only attempting a practice stroke.
No, it was a real stroke. And it was painful. And it may have cost Jutanugarn her third major championship.
This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
