ATLANTA – If Harris English is being honest, the 211-yard 15th hole at East Lake isn’t where one expects to make up ground on the lead.
“No. 15, you're just really trying to make par, just trying to hit it to 20 feet,” he said of the hole, which features a peninsula green with water left, right and short.
But when his 5-iron, which he admitted he “tugged,” launched toward the hole late in Thursday’s opening round, English took notice. When it trundled into the hole for the most unlikely hole in one, he “blacked out.