PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Michael Thompson quietly owned the Bear Trap.
Nobody had played it better since the Honda Classic moved to PGA National in 2007. It wasn’t even close.
In 29 times around the Champions Course, he had never hit a ball in the water through the Bear Trap. That’s more than pretty good, with all the water around that treacherous trio of holes, with all the wind that typically howls across them, and with all the drunken fans who like to heckle from the party pavilions amid them.
Nobody else has ever played more than 14 rounds without hitting a shot in the water through there.