Min Woo Lee thought he’d made it.
His birdie putt from 37 feet, 6 inches on TPC Sawgrass’ famous island green was tracking right toward the hole. The 24-year-old Australian started walking right to get a better look at the big breaker and then lifted his finger in the air, anticipating the putt to drop and send the surrounding thousands into a frenzy.
“I was going up there thinking and talking to my caddie like, how can I stop this,” Lee said. “And I managed to hit like 99% of a perfect putt. When I got on to the apex where it was going down, it was like inside left and it was looking so good, and it just crept right.