TV cameras have captured the second a runaway golf cart made a giant splash on the PGA tour – actually.
As a bunch was placing out on the par-3 sixteenth throughout the first spherical of the Vacationers Championship, each the golfers and the gallery turned distracted by one thing occurring within the crowd.
The printed then lower to the second the cart plummeted down a hill and right into a pond having suffered an obvious park brake failure.
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The scene turns into comical as a number of baggage float to the floor because the cart disappears beneath it.
Whereas park brake failure has been blamed for the crash, social media speculated if the brake did certainly fail, or if an attendant solely did not set it.
A courageous spectator seemed like he wished to try to cease the cart moments earlier than it crashed into the pond, however correctly determined in opposition to it.
“You do not see that on a regular basis,” the commentator stated on the protection.
In the meantime, Rory McIlroy fought off a sinus bug to shoot an 8-under 62 for a share of the first-round lead with J.T. Poston.
Coming off a fifth-place tie within the U.S. Open, McIlroy had a bogey-free morning spherical -highlighted by a 47-foot birdie putt on the par-4 seventh.
McIlroy matched the bottom opening spherical of his PGA Tour profession.
“It is like U.S. Open rehab coming right here,” the four-time main champion stated. “I like coming right here the week after the U.S. Open, it type of provides you a chance to shoot low scores and get after it.”
Beginning on the again 9, Poston had 5 straight birdies from the Thirteenth-Seventeenth and made the flip at 6-under 29, giving rise to ideas of Jim Furyk’s file 58 on the identical TPC River Highlands course in 2016. Poston parred the primary six holes on entrance 9 and birdied the seventh and ninth to additionally cap a bogey-free spherical.
“I gave myself just a few appears to be like, however form of made a bunch of pars to start out the entrance, in order that was form of out of the image after a short time,” Poston stated.
“I may need thought of it a little bit extra if I had made a few early birdies.”
Xander Schauffele and Martin Laird have been a stroke again.
— With AP
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