2021 RBC Heritage: Lee Westwood Accomplishes Rare Feat
By Tim Letcher
On Saturday, Lee Westwood did something that professional golfers don’t do on a regular occasion. Playing at the 2021 RBC Heritage, Westwood’s feat is not something he will be particularly proud of but it was certainly noteworthy.
Westwood entered Saturday’s round at 3-under par and in a tie for 40th place. He needed to make something happen in the third round to have any shot of winning on Sunday.
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His front nine on Saturday was fairly quiet. He birdied the par-5 second hole to get into red figures. He fell back to even with a bogey on the fourth hole but would close his front side with a birdie on the ninth hole to shoot a 1-under par 35.
On the back nine, Westwood parred the 10th hole before a bogey on the 11th. He would bounce back with a birdie on the 12th to get back to 1-under par.
But on the par-4 13th hole, Westwood accomplished something that is not seen often in PGA Tour events.
He drove the ball into the right side of the fairway, leaving himself about 130 yards from the hole. But his second shot came up short and went into a greenside bunker.
Not only was his ball in the bunker, it was plugged in the bunker. Westwood took at hack at his ball but advanced it only about six inches with his third shot. He was still in the bunker for his fourth. From there, he blasted out of the bunker and over the green.
His fifth shot, from the rough, got him on the green but he was still about 50 feet from the hole. His first putt, his sixth shot on the hole, missed badly, leaving Westwood about 10 feet for a seven. He would miss that putt as well and would tap in for an eight.
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That’s right, Westwood made a snowman on a par four with no penalty shots. Not something that happens every day on the tour and something that Westwood will always remember for all the wrong reasons.
Westwood ended up shooting a 4-over par 75 and fell into last place among those who made the cut. And a big reason was his eight on the par-4 13th hole.