Rai went driver down the middle, iron to 4 feet, putt, birdie, off a nearly unmatched high. So I couldn’t quite believe that it happened, but very, very special. So it happened very fast, but it feels very vivid now that I’m even talking about it and remembering some of those images. “In the second after that, I looked to the right, towards my caddie, and he came running at me. “I saw it go in, and then I looked to the left to almost see, is it real, and I saw almost the crowd’s hands in the air. “It was a little bit of a blur,” Rai said. Then he broke the TPC Sawgrass course record By: Jason Timmis, Rai’s caddie, shoved his way toward his player, jumped into a hug, and the two 360’ed. In the air, moving slightly right to left, his ball tracked toward the middle of the downslope over the hole. So there’s always a little bit of luck involved with making a shot like that, but, yeah, it was a good shot as well.” “So that was pretty much my plan for both front pins really to kind of pitch it middle and let it just spin back to kind of front middle. So it felt like a safe shot where I’m playing to the biggest margin but also gives an opportunity to get close. So a shot that hits the middle of the green with falling off the wind is always spinning back towards the pin. “The plan was to aim just for the middle of the green, and the wind was into out of the right.
“Really for those front pins - we had a front right on Thursday and obviously front left today,” Rai said. Notably, he has just bought a house in the Ponte Vedra Beach area and has played Sawgrass often, but all that intelligence did was tell him to take his three and move along. It was playing 122 yards, with the pin toward the front. Let’s start with 17, and the shot they’ll be showing on the highlight video. News How the Players Championship became golf’s weirdest event By: “So yeah, very pleased with how we finished there.” And then made a great birdie on 16, and you saw what happened on 17, and then really proud of the way we finished off there on 18 because it can be challenging after a moment like that to compose myself and play the hole well, which is what we did. Made a lot of pars before that, and it felt like the round was kind of moving steadily but not really moving anywhere. “The atmosphere around this event, even over the last couple of days, has been one of the best atmospheres I’ve ever competed in. “Yeah, it was incredible,” Rai said on NBC. He’ll start Sunday’s final round tied for fourth, five shots back of leader Scottie Scheffler. No player in tournament history has finished 4, 1 and 3.
He’s the 10th player to ace 17 since 1997. Aaron Rai makes his first career ace to send the crowd into a frenzy! /48vVElNQr7- PGA TOUR March 11, 2023
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