Bermuda Championship: Chris Baker with a horrible four hole stretch
Sometimes, you have a bad hole. Maybe a few in a row. You wouldn’t expect it to happen to someone on the PGA Tour, but that’s exactly what happened to Chris Baker during the second round of the Bermuda Championship.
Anyone who golfs has been there before. You start off your round and are having a good time, playing well. Then disaster strikes. Just ask Chris Baker during his second round of the Bermuda Championship.
I feel for Baker. I really do. It’s leagues apart, but I fell apart in a tournament I was playing recently. Three over through thirteen, and then a double-double-bogey stretch. Things don’t always go the way that you want them to.
He wasn’t playing great at the Bermuda Championship, but through 27 holes, he looked like he would be in line to make the cut at even, and a birdie or two would easily get him into a safe territory to continue playing into the weekend. Still well behind day one leader Malnati, he was still having a strong enough tourney.
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A birdie on 11, and he was -1 for the day and the tournament. He gave it away on the next hole and would be even heading into the par 4 15th hole. Things would go south, and it would happen fast, as it did for Bozzelli the day before.
It went bad right at the tee box, as he would find himself having to re-tee after hitting OB. He kept this one in play, but it was still ugly, and he would have to play from the rough in a precarious position. The snowball would continue, as another penalty area was found, causing him to take a drop in the rough for his approach on his sixth shot of the hole.
Short of the green is where he would be, needing to chip-in for a triple bogey. Alas, no such luck and a chip followed by a two-putt would be the end of a disastrous hole for Chris Baker. A nine is what would go down on his scorecard, and his week was all but over with a few holes left.
Unfortunately, it wouldn’t stop there for Baker, and his trip down the leaderboard would continue. A double on 16 would be followed by back-to-back bogeys on 17 and 18.
All of a sudden, in just a four-hole stretch, Chris Baker would go from making the cut at even-par to one of the bottom ten in the tournament with his +9 80.
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Golf can be fickle, and ready to humble you at the most inopportune moment. Sadly, that happened to Chris Baker, and his struggle at the end would be the end of his play at the Bermuda Championship as well.