MELBOURNE — Tournament favourite and headline act Brandt Snedeker endured a nightmare start to the Australian PGA Championship on Thursday, slumping to an astonishing nine-over after nine holes at the RACV Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast.
A seven-time winner on the U.S. PGA Tour, the world number 38 American was made to look like a weekend hacker as he teed off from the 10th hole with back-to-back bogeys and crashed to a double-bogey on the par-five 12th followed by a triple-bogey seven on the 13th.
He steadied with a couple of pars on the 14th and 15th, but dropped further shots on 16 and 18 to be sitting last in the field of 78 players.