Golf Channel
On Saturday, during the Korea Championships third round, Mike Lorenzo Vera, off the tee on the 386-yard, 4-by-4 at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in South Korea, hit his water metal just 75 yards out.
It fell on one of the front tees.
It was wrong.
But this is definitely a positive no The story is here.
Yes, on these pages from time to time the unfortunate are highlighted. Most of us here are not professionals. Or it’s all even good. And so we enjoy when the best of the best gets to the 75-yard mark off our tee. Perhaps that is why the aftermath of Lorenzo Vera’s flip is so good.
He laughed at him. hysterically. Kinda like you and me.
And that green light has given some of the best comments you’ll hear, too.
To start, Lorenzo Vera pulled his share of the lead a hole earlier. Then Golf Channel analyst Jay Townsend warned viewers that the 4 tee shot wasn’t easy. There was a wind from left to right. There was water on the left side of the hole. Lorenzo Vera, the 38-year-old Frenchman who has won just over $6 million in his career, has succeeded. His back was shortened. The contact made a strange sound. It is noted above where his ball landed.
he laughed. A “Oh, ho, hoo.”
He put his right hand on his nose and lowered his head.
He looked up and covered his mouth.
He dropped his head on his butt and laughed some more.
He turned to his playing partner, Antoine Rosner, and laughed.
He got out of the tee box and laughed.
At the back of the box, he lowered his head again and laughed.
The can laughed.
At this point, you probably are. When all this happened, the Golf Channel commentary team of Townsend, Tony Johnston and Alison Whitaker joined.
“You’re not going to see many of those,” Johnston said.
“He couldn’t even do it as a trick,” Whitaker said.
“I thought he might have just skated,” Johnston said, “but he’s just pushed out.”
“I think it might be a kind of both, Tony,” said Whitaker.
“Five inches behind him,” Johnston said. “What can you do? Just a mechanical failure. It happens. You just have to laugh about it.”
“It almost feels like his buddies are spinning and recording now,” said Whitaker.
Whew.
From there, Lorenzo Vera hit his second shot about 75 yards from the green, went down on it and put it in bogey. The third round was suspended due to darkness on Saturday, and he will start Sunday with five shots off the lead.
“I tell you what,” Johnston said on the broadcast after Lorenzo-Vera finished the fourth.
“And you know what, that’s his bad shot out of the way for the day.”