“It can fail,” said an old illusionist a few decades ago. and the young man William Mouw24 years old and professional golf from 2023 in the PGA Tourhe seemed to remember those words. Once, and again, and again.
The sequence went around the world and had even more impact than the rest of the results of the The American Express 2025disputed in Californiathe third contest of the season, with the Argentines Emiliano Grillo y Alejandro Tosti among its participants.
But the unfortunate protagonist in the tournament that distributes almost 9 million dollars and is played in the PGA WEST (Stadium Course) of The Fifth It was none other than good old Mouw, and this was due to the unfortunate lapse he had when he was about to complete the second round of the competition and was 6 strokes under par, close to the first positions.
The 169th ranked player in the world was excited about winning the first tournament of his life after 34 competitions where he came close to achieving it on several occasions: he was second on three occasions, finished five times in the top five and six times in the top 10, to accumulate a profit of 559 thousand dollars.
But on that par 5 16th hole It collapsed inexplicably.and he had managed to put the ball just 25 yards from the flag with a couple of hits. But with one detail: he was in a bunker that would end up being his worst nightmare due to the more than five meters high that blocked their arrival to the green.
That’s how William tried his luck looking for a good approach that gave him the chance for birdie but in reality it started a series of shots that led him to cross from one side to the other of the most missed carpet.
“My God, what is happening?!” said one of the commentators on the official PGA broadcast, suffering what Mouw was going through as his own. “Oh, boy…” they later lamented. “Did he do it again? He did it. “My God,” they said later. “Calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down, calm down,” they pleaded at the end.
The young golfer ended up falling five times in the bunker before ending his torment by throwing the ball back into the fairway to start over, depositing the ball in the hole and decreeing the unthinkable: an eightfold bogey that went around the world. And that will serve as a lesson for what comes in his career.