Things went completely downhill for J.T. Poston on the par-5 13th at the Travelers Championship. The Memorial winner hit a great drive down the middle of the fairway, and what followed was the one of the most costly holes of his round.

Poston was 3 under par heading to the 13th tee on Sunday and firmly in position for a respectable finish. His second shot found the greenside bunker right of the putting surface.

"First off, just hitting in that bunker is the last place we should have been," Poston told Golfweek after his round. "It just ended up against the back of the lip (of the bunker), and I didn't have much of a shot. I knew if I flew the bunker shot on the green, it was gonna go in the water based on where it was."

Poston hit his bunker shot short of the green, leaving him 59 feet from the hole in a fairway cut, as reported by David Dusek of GolfWeek.

He followed that with what he thought was a good chip shot, but the ball kept rolling through the green until it found the water. A penalty drop was on the cards.

"It's not really rough, where you can kind of blast it out," Poston said. "It's into the grain, but it looks like you can get enough golf ball on it, which is why I kept trying to hit a good chip," he added.

Not one but three penalty drops followed for the 33-year-old. His sixth and eighth chip shots rolled back into the water.

Poston finally got out of the situation with his 10th shot, which ended up 13 feet past the hole.

The struggle continued as Poston missed that putt. He finally holed the 8-inch putt on his 12th shot, ending with a septuple bogey.

The 33-year-old was asked why he didn’t consider putting the ball, and he shared his perspective.

Why didn’t Poston consider the option of putting?

Putting would have been a safer option for Poston, who continuously saw his chip shots roll back into the water.

"Putting it, I feel like it's just going to hop and that takes all the speed out of it. And you've got this big false front you got to get it over. So my worry with trying to putt it was it would not have enough speed to get, really get there," he explained, as per Golfweek.

Leading up to that hole, the 4-time PGA Tour winner had made four birdies in the round and was in his groove. The idea of the chip shot came from a place of confidence, but Poston ended up paying heavily for it.

Poston finished the final round with a score of 76. He secured a 69th-place finish in the 72-man field.

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Written by

Avishek Sarkar

Edited by

Pulkit Prabhav