Si Woo Kim might have caught the worst break of the season
Si Woo Kim's drive at the Arnold Palmer Invitational might have been the unluckiest shot of the season.
We all catch a bad break in golf from time to time and experience plenty of those "how have I lost that?!" moments, but Si Woo Kim might have had the unluckiest shot in on the PGA Tour this season and he certainly wasn't pleased with the outcome...
Martin Trainer was recently on the GOLF.com podcast, where he was talking about his rookie year, winning the Puerto Rico Open and some of the biggest myths on the PGA Tour.
Trainer also revealed his favourite story from the season so far, which happened at the misfortune of Si Woo Kim during the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.
The two were paired together during the first two rounds of the Arnold Palmer Inviational back in March, where on the 18th tee they both crushed a drive straight down the middle, but Kim's perfect drive quickly became a problem.
“[Si Woo] just pipes this drive, and he’s just so happy. We just look up there and it takes a big bounce. Huh? That’s weird. That took a huge hop. He’s going to be way down there. He’s going to have like a pitching wedge in. This is fantastic. Little do we know, that big bounce came from him hitting the Robert Gamez memorial hole-out plate! It scoots all the way down into the water.
“I also hit a good drive down the middle, I hit it a little further than Si Woo, so I’m like ‘Oh, there’s one ball in the fairway. Where’s the other ball? Did I go all the way through? It’s a little downwind, but it’s like 350 yards or something. There’s no way I got all the way down there. I see my ball in the fairway. I’m like ‘Oh, thank goodness, but where’s Si Woo at? Is he in a sprinkler?’ I was looking around in the sprinklers. Then I turn around and look at him. He’s just standing on the edge of the lake, staring into the lake, disappointed. Then he pulls out his yardage book and throws it into the lake! Then we proceed to finish the round. That was an all-time moment.
“The best part was that his caddie proceeded to rip into Robert Gamez and his career and how undeserving he is to have a plate out there and how it’s total B.S. that there’s a stupid plate commemorating his career.”
According to Shotlink, after hitting the plate, Kim's drive travelled 344 yards before finding the water, while Trainer's drive went 318 yards and safely found the fairway.
The two started their round on the 10th hole, so after Kim threw his yardage book into the water, he was left without one for the rest of the round and ended up missing the cut after the second round.
