'Golf Sucks So Bad' - PGA Tour Pro Sums Up The Game After Incredible Double Bogey
Peter Malnati's reaction to one of the most incredible double bogeys seen on the PGA Tour just about sums up the game for everyone who plays it
Peter Malnati is one of us. The PGA Tour pro managed to encapsulate the full range of golfing emotions from despair at the maddening difficulty to those moments of addictive joy that keep us coming back for more - in just one hole.
And he summed it pretty sweetly as well when he proclaimed with a wry smile that "golf sucks" despite him just holing out from 177 yards.
The problem being that Malnati had just made a complete mess of the fourth hole in the first round of the Black Desert Championship with some classic left-right army golf.
An opening tee shot carved way right into the lava rocks - followed by the re-load being tugged equally as badly way off to the left. That meant a dreaded five off the tee, the lowest of low positions to be in on the golf course.
As many a hacker will tell you though, golf has a habit if playing with your emotions, cruelly inflicting blow after blow on your fragile game but then just as you're ready to give up it reels you back in.
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It's an abusive sporting relationship when you think about it, but at least Malnati ended up smiling as he smashed away his drive at the fourth for a third time - and third time being a charm he found the middle of the fairway.
Then, as reward for sticking to it, the golfing gods saw to it that his approach from 177 yards landed, hit the breaks and went into reverse, tumbling down the slope on the green and rattling into the bottom of the cup.
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What a way to make a double-bogey six, and such a crazy hole left Malnati battered, bruised, bemused but ultimately chuckling as he exchanged sheepish fist bumps from his playing partners.
"Golf sucks so bad, that is the stupidest..." Malnati was heard saying on the PGA Tour TV coverage. "Nice double!"
It was more than a nice double though, it was a six of epic proportions, and one that managed to capture all of the emotions you usually go through in a round all in one hole. It's well worth a watch.
Paul Higham is a sports journalist with over 20 years of experience in covering most major sporting events for both Sky Sports and BBC Sport. He is currently freelance and covers the golf majors on the BBC Sport website. Highlights over the years include covering that epic Monday finish in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor and watching Rory McIlroy produce one of the most dominant Major wins at the 2011 US Open at Congressional. He also writes betting previews and still feels strangely proud of backing Danny Willett when he won the Masters in 2016 - Willett also praised his putting stroke during a media event before the Open at Hoylake. Favourite interviews he's conducted have been with McIlroy, Paul McGinley, Thomas Bjorn, Rickie Fowler and the enigma that is Victor Dubuisson. A big fan of watching any golf from any tour, sadly he spends more time writing about golf than playing these days with two young children, and as a big fair weather golfer claims playing in shorts is worth at least five shots. Being from Liverpool he loves the likes of Hoylake, Birkdale and the stretch of tracks along England's Golf Coast, but would say his favourite courses played are Kingsbarns and Portrush.
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