While her ball had stopped at the edge of the hole on green n ° 8, the Thai player was able to cause the fall without touching it. Birdie!
“Patience and length of time are more than strength or rage. La Fontaine could not know golf when his fable “The lion and the rat” inspired him this moral. However, one can think that the Thai (almost unpronounceable name for Europeans) Pajaree Annanarukarn revises her classics when training leaves her a little time. Drawing.
Hole lip
During the last round of the Amundi Evian Championship, the 113e World player took advantage of this when her ball came to rest at the edge of the hole on the 8 green. Young Pajaree (22) had just hit the bunker and the ball went straight to the flag before slowing down to stop almost on the lip of the hole.
More than thirty seconds would elapse without the ball moving a millimeter … Time to climb back up from the sandbox, to kneel down to observe the situation, to stand next to the hole to try to provoke the fall … Anannarukarn seemed to no longer believe it, under the gaze of the three caddies in the game.
Shadow
It was then that the Thai had the right idea: create shade above her ball. The technique is well known to golfers around the world. In such a case, the shadow causes the blades of grass to flatten out very quickly, sometimes enough to create an imperceptible movement under the ball. And bingo!
This is exactly what happened with Pajaree Anannarukarn’s ball. Incredulous, the Thai indeed had the good surprise to hear the “cloc” of the ball at the bottom of the cup, at her feet. His easy par had just turned into an unexpected birdie! And the Asian player to question the spectators screaming around her as if to be convinced!
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