Ludvig Aberg's wacky and unfortunate approach at the Scottish Open. Sky Sports Ludvig Aberg was rolling in the first round of the Genesis Scottish Open : two under through seven holes and two birdies in his last two holes. His good form continued on the tee at the 448-yard par-4 8th from where he found the right side of the fairway, leaving himself just 148 yards to a front-right pin on a blind green.
One of Aberg’s playing partners, Collin Morikawa, already had played, knocking a nifty approach to 11 feet right of the hole. Aberg must have liked Morikawa’s result, because the young Swede launched a short iron that followed a markedly similar line to Morikawa’s. Well, not markedly — exactly .
As Aberg’s ball descended to the green, it landed squarely on top of Morikawa’s ball, a space that occupied all of 1.68 inches. “Oh, you don’t see that very often,” a commentor said on the Sky Sports broadcast.
“That’s got to be 1 in 10,000.” Actually, the odds are probably much slimmer than that. Figure in a full field PGA Tour event there are roughly 150 players hitting approaches or tee shots, over the course of four rounds, into 72 greens.
That’s more than 10,000 shots right there, and this is not an occurrence we see at every event. Whatever the odds, we can agree they are long! Ask Aberg, who after his six-under opening 64 said of the wackiness at the 8th: “I’ve never seen it before. Probably not going to see it for a long time again.
” Nor would he w.