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Ricochet off television tower costs Palmer, who regrets nothing

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Sunday, 12 January 2020 15:10

While Brendan Steele was granted free relief from the grandstands of the 72nd hole at the Sony Open on Sunday, Ryan Palmer wasn't so lucky in his encounter with a temporary immovable obstruction.

Playing in the second-to-last group and trailing by just one, Palmer pulled 3-wood from the fairway bunker at the par-5 18th. His ball then sailed to the right and ricocheted off the top of a very large, very tall television screen, never to be seen again.

After his three minutes of search time elapsed, Palmer took a long cart ride back to the fairway bunker, from where he advanced his fourth shot to short of the green. Although he nearly holed his pitch shot for par, he was left to settle for a bogey, a round of 68 and a tie for fourth at 9 under par.

Asked if he knew that he was just one back at the time or if he would have done anything differently, Palmer answered: "Yeah, no, I knew I was one back. It's a shot I hit every time. There is no doubt about it."

He even doubled down on Twitter after the round:

Apparently, the only thing Palmer does regret is his misjudging of the carom: "I told [rules official Slugger White] driving up, I was trying to hit the left side of the cylinders holding up the scoreboard, not the right side."

Oddly enough, it was Palmer's flare to the right that prompted Steele, watching in the group behind, to violently miss to the left after a 15-minute wait in the fairway.

"I was watching Ryan and trying to figure out what he was doing," Steele explained after his playoff loss to Cameron Smith. "I was trying to figure out where he could have possibly hit it, and then I was thinking, 'Oh, he's hit it out of bounds right.'

"I was like, well, we don't want to do that. So that wasn't positive at all."

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