Watch golfers at the Division 3 Women’s Championship take on an ‘unplayable’ hole

There are lots of colourful expressions about what it’s prefer to putt on the greens on the Masters. One expression equates navigating these greens to making an attempt to putt on the roof of Volkswagen Beetle. Analyst David Feherty mentioned of them as soon as “[t]o play on placing surfaces you can truly see your reflection at occasions may be very intimidating. No query these greens make you sweat.” Steve Stricker mentioned merely “[i]t’s only a robust place to putt.”

The opponents on the Division III Girls’s Championship lived that have this week at Mission Hill.

The 308-yard, par-4 sixth at Mission Hill had a gap placement this week that was so troublesome, the NCAA Division III ladies’s golf committee made the choice to deem the outlet “unplayable,” and shorten the size of the event.

“All through Spherical 3 on Thursday, and regardless of efforts to enhance situations, it grew to become obvious that the pin placement on gap No. 6 … was unplayable,” the committee mentioned in assertion supplied to GolfChannel.com. “After play was suspended attributable to lightning late Thursday afternoon, the committee analyzed quite a few totally different choices on the best way to full the event within the time allotted.”

Video surfaced on Thursday evening of quite a few golfers making an attempt to placed on the sixth gap, however putts both arising simply quick after which rolling again to the golfers’ toes, or places even going previous the outlet, however winding again down in direction of the place the golfer began the putt:

This isn’t the primary time the event was held at Mission Hill, because the event wa contested on the course on seven earlier events. In keeping with one coach, who spoke with GolfChannel.com, NCAA officers — who’re answerable for pin placements — ought to have recognized higher.

“They need to’ve recognized to not put [the hole] there,” mentioned the coach. “They only mentioned they had been sorry they usually felt dangerous.”

Solely 5 birdies had been registered on the sixth gap, and the identical coach witnessed two of them, describing them this manner: “I noticed two of the birdies,” added the identical coach. “One would’ve gone 25 yards off the inexperienced if it didn’t go in.”

George Fox College received the staff championship, ending 5 pictures forward of Washington College in St. Louis to win their first-ever nationwide title.

Annie Mascot of WashU secured the person title, ending 5 over par and three strokes forward of Hannah Jugar from College of Redlands.