For fans of golf, last Friday was one of the most anticipated: a weekend of pure sport began where, over three days, the cup would be disputed Ryder Cup in Wisconsin. However, no one expected the most incredible play of the tournament happened during the first day, in which a competitor managed to get a impossible ball with a shot that almost leaves him in a lagoon.
The protagonist was the American Jordan Spieth, who on the morning of the first day of competition found a panorama tricky on hole 17. Is that, after a bad blow at the beginning, his ball ended up on the side of a steep slope from where the player had no angle to take it out again.
The golfer’s resolution was unexpected for everyone in the field. And even for him. After positioning himself next to the ball and taking a few minutes to act, he managed to remove it with a blow so strong that it destabilized him. So much was the force implemented, that the athlete fell down the slope managing to brake centimeters before falling into a lagoon.
The parable that Spieth achieved to stay in play was not only good for having taken the ball out of a sector that seemed impossible, but also for having managed to leave it on the green, one meter from the hole.
The American noticed the miraculous shot he had achieved when he heard the repercussions around him: the applause of the spectators and the congratulations of those who accompanied him made him realize that he had done it.
It was then that, released from tension, celebrated on the shoreline and began to climb the slope to return to the field of play.
Instantly, the carom became the play outstanding of the entire tournament, which ended this Sunday with a victory of USA above Europe thus recovering the trophy that they had failed to obtain in the last edition after a defeat in Paris.
Rivals by Jordan Spieth, Sergio García and Jon Rahm, were also impacted with the blow that the golfer made and they congratulated him for having overcome that almost insurmountable obstacle.
Once the day was over, the Spaniard, nicknamed “El Niño”, referred to what happened with his opponent: “Really I was afraid that he would get hurt and something serious will happen. I didn’t think there was a chance that I could drop it on the green from where it was, “Garcia said.
Golfer Jordan Spieth’s impossible shot.
Ryder Cup Final
After three days of competition, the American team was crowned tournament champion 19-9 achieving a difference of 10 points. These numbers mark the widest victory in recent years at the Ryder Cup.
For Europe, the defeat led several golfers to end the weekend spilling tears in front of the cameras. “This week is going to hurt for a while. They have been stronger, they have surpassed us, but it is time to think about the next edition, look ahead and find a way to recover the cup ”, said Poulter, a player on the team.
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