David Lipsky’s third round couldn’t have started any worse Saturday at Waialae Country Club’s par-4 opening hole: 339 yards into the unknown.
Or, in other words, Lipsky had piped his first tee ball of the day out of bounds.
But wait, there’s more color.
“It's never ideal when your ball goes 50 yards down the path OB, but it is what it is,” Lipsky explained afterward. “I thought it was just going to be in the rough, and then just kicked dead left and never left the path.”
Lipsky never gave up. He found the fairway with his second drive, knocked his approach from 154 yards out to 26 feet and holed the bogey save.