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4 days ago
- Sport
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Matti Schmid's golf scorecard to start FedEx St. Jude Championship may have never been done before
Matti Schmid's golf scorecard to start FedEx St. Jude Championship may have never been done before originally appeared on The Sporting News Matti Schmid may have had the oddest start to a golf round ever on Thursday. Playing at the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind, Schmid was 3-over through six holes. That's not the weird part, though. It's the sequence of scores that's wild. Schmid went: 5 4 3 2 6 7 And in scores relative to par: Bogey Par Eagle Birdie Double bogey Triple bogey Here it is visually: All that's missing is a double-eagle/albatross, or a hole-in-one. And hey, there's still time. Schmid isn't necessarily familiar to a lot of golf fans stateside. The 27-year old German won the European Amateur in both 2019 and 2020 and was the top amateur at the 2021 Open Championship. He did play college golf at the University of Louisville. His highest rank in the World Golf Rankings came in May of this year, when he checked in at No. 76. It was a weird round all around for Schmid. He had to play by himself as the first golfer of the day because Rory McIlroy was absent. And then on the par-5 third, Schmid created some extra drama. Here's how Golfweek described it: "Schmid went for the green in two and hit his second shot 207 yards to within 5½ feet of the hole. He made the putt for eagle, but after he finished, the grounds crew had to come out and recut the hole. In the process, they moved the cup about one foot to the right to avoid the repaired area." So every other golfer had a slightly different ending point on that hole than Schmid. Talk about a busy day at the office. Schmid finished at 1-over, only putting up 3s, 4s or 5s the rest of the day after his wacky start. MORE: Why Rory McIlroy skipped the St. Jude Championship
The Independent
03-08-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
White House boasts about Trump's golf score – days after he was accused of cheating on his own course
The White House on Saturday posted President Donald Trump 's winning golf score from a tournament at his New Jersey golf club, boasting about his win just days after he was accused of cheating on another course. 'Winning on and off the course,' the official White House Instagram page wrote, showing the final score card from the 2025 Men's Senior Club Championship tournament at Trump National in Bedminster. At the top of the card was Trump's gross score of 69 – representing the number of golf strokes the president took on each hole in the tournament. Adjusted with his handicap, the numerical measure of how well a person golfs by either adding or deducting strokes from the gross score, Trump's net score was 67. The score means the president has a handicap of around 2, which is considered very impressive for a non-professional golfer. But a number of commenters on the Instagram post did not appear excited about the president's score, many joking that just last week, reports accused Trump of cheating on his golf course in Scotland. 'Yo we saw the video from Scotland last week, he just throws the ball where he wants it and makes up a score,' one commenter wrote. 'I mean yeah, I'd win too if my caddy was dropping balls on the course for me,' another Instagram user wrote on the post. While on a trip to Scotland in July, a widely-circulated video of the president golfing at his course in Turnberry appeared to insinuate that Trump cheats at his beloved game. The president's caddy appeared to drop Trump's ball closer to the fairway – which some interpreted as a violation of the rules of golf, which generally says to play the ball where it lies. Allegations that Trump cheats at golf date back to before his first term. Some have accused him of using his caddies or Secret Service detail to move his ball. Others claim the president himself has kicked his ball to make it easier to hit. Trump has always denied the allegations. The cheating allegations have been so rampant that one sports writer, Rick Reilly, even wrote an entire book on it, titled Commander in Cheat. In response to the president's recent win, Reilly wrote on X, 'The 4 guys in Trump's group finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th. Trump has a magic pencil. #CommanderInCheat' However, some professionals who have played alongside the president say he is actually quite a good golfer. Jack Nicklaus, a hall-of-fame golfer, said in 2020 that Trump plays 'pretty well.' Tom Watson, a former professional golfer, said in 2017 that the president was a good hitter and 'can really get the ball out there.' Trump is passionate about golf; he famously played often during his first term in office and continues to play often now. According to a website that tracks the number of golf trips the president takes, he's golfed approximately 49 out of the 196 days he's been in office. Earlier this year, Trump said he won the golf club championship at his golf club in Palm Beach, Florida, as well.
BBC News
18-07-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
The golfer who scored 10 on one hole in The Open
Shaun Norris stepped on to the fourth tee at Royal Portrush one over for The Open. A run at the leaderboard was still within his minutes later, the South African's scorecard was wrecked and his brain scrambled as he wrote the numbers one and zero on his card. 1-0. 10. (Ten). Double-figures. Six more than par. Norris took 10 shots to complete a hole that should have taken four. Sure, the fourth was considered the fifth most difficult hole on Friday - it caused him a mischief on Thursday too - but not this what happened to the 43-year-old over those 504 yards? How did the hole unfold? Three pars to start had Norris in decent fettle as he took aim towards the far end of the course. Then an errant lash of his driver darkened the ugly spray from the tee screamed out of bounds on the right and he was forced to fish another ball from his compose yourself, avoid that fairway bunker on the left... What bunker? That bunker you've just landed in. The one you took two to get out of on that stage, Norris was in the sand, three shots deep, and had 230-odd yards to the green. Not great, but not catastrophic. Not yet."What was it, the fourth shot? It caught the lip," he explained. "Then I hit the same club and tried to do the same."He told BBC Sport that he tried to "chase something" and, three increasingly infuriated swipes later, he was still in the same bunker. It was beginning to look like he might never emerge. Like this was his life now. Finally, fuelled by the fury of a man who's world was falling apart around him, he found just enough elevation to escape, his ball apologetically bounding 39 yards down the emerged behind it. A man who had probably lost track of how many times he'd hit the ball, what hole he was on, and even what his name was. "My mind went a little bit numb," he records showed he had played seven. The pin was still the thick end of 200 yards away. Too far, as it turned approach settled 20-odd yards short left. But somehow he gathered himself to chip to seven feet and hole the putt."Shot 10. Ball holed. Double bogey or worse," recorded the official Open shot was worse. Much, much worse. How did Norris respond? Norris would go on to finish five and destined to miss the cut. Eight of those shots were lost on the fourth across his two days on the Antrim coast. A couple of pars and he would have been well-placed for the weekend. Brutal. It took him six to complete the fourth on Thursday but, just like in the first round, he caught a grip of himself to respond with birdie on the three birdies after the turn - including one from 30 feet on the last - repaired some more of the damage, at least to his self-esteem if not his scorecard."Apart from one hole, I actually played quite nicely," he insisted. "One hole killed me, but I was happy with the way I fought back. "Take that hole out this week and you never know what happens." Given the fourth hole took three shots from him in the 2019 staging of The Open at Portrush, and it would be entirely understandably should Norris want it torn the South African, clearly, is a man of substance."I'll take it on again," he insisted. "I'll accept the challenge. But I'll play it a little bit differently next time."
