On the 13th hole during his TGL match against the New York Golf Club, Tiger Woods thought he had 99 yards left to the flag.
He decided to use his 56-degree sand wedge, the right club for a 100-yard shot. Woods then swung away, thinking he had hit a solid approach — a rarity during this match since his team faced a 7-point deficit. Woods was struggling and needed some sort of bounce back to lift up his team.
But his sand wedge ended up roughly 100 yards short of the pin. Come to find out, Woods had 199 yards left for his second shot — not 99 — and he misheard the yardage from Kevin Kisner and Tom Kim, his two teammates.
“What is he doing?” Kisner can be heard saying on the ESPN broadcast.
“He’s got a wedge!?”
“You said 99 yards!?” Woods exclaimed.
“I heard you say 99, not 199.”
Kim and Kisner could not help but laugh hysterically as Woods’ gaffe became the moment of the match. Woods even called it the “most embarrassing” moment of his life on the golf course.
“I can’t believe that just happened,” Woods said to the media after.
The result was already decided, with New York Golf Club ultimately winning 10-to-3, but at least Jupiter Links Golf provided some entertainment again.
In their first match, another lopsided defeat, Kisner hit a shank out of the greenside bunker that rifled off the flagstick, producing a loud smacking noise. The golfing world had never seen Woods laugh harder as Kisner’s shank became the funniest moment of TGL’s season — until now.
Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Follow him on X @jack_milko.
