Zach Johnson's Humana shot from the rocks didn't go so well
Sometimes you get into a tough spot playing golf. And sometimes you want to try to pull off a hero shot instead of taking a penalty drop or an unplayable lie. That happened to Zach Johnson on Friday at the Humana Challenge, and the results were bad.
Johnson was on the par-4 10th at the Palmer Private course -- one of three played this week -- when he tried to cut off a little too much with his drive of water on the dogleg-left hole. His drive landed in a rock pile. Instead of taking a drop and a penalty stroke, Johnson tried to hit his ball from the rocks. The ball caromed off the rocks and went backwards into the water hazard.
In the end, Johnson made a double-bogey 6 en route to a 2-under 70 in Round 2. At the Humana Challenge, taking a step -- or a shot -- backwards really kills any chance of winning. At 5 under through two rounds, Johnson is 10 shots back of leader Matt Kuchar.
Meanwhile in Hawaii, Bernhard Langer had an equally nasty encounter with rocks at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, the Champions Tour season-opener on Hawaii. On the par-5 seventh, Langer found himself amid some lava rocks, eventually double-hitting his ball on the way to a quintuple-bogey 10 on the hole.
Langer still shot even-par 72 to trail leader Rocco Mediate by six shots after Day 1.
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