HAVEN, Wis. — No sequence exemplified the madcap, can-you-top-this personality of the third round of the P.G.A. Championship as perfectly as Matt Jones’s shot from the blue-carpeted floor of a hospitality tent.
On the ninth hole Saturday, Jones hit his tee shot so far left that it morphed from wayward drive into party-crashing missile. No one was hurt, and Jones, who was leading the tournament at the time, burst into the tent, sidestepped the shrimp cocktail and saw opportunity.
Soon, he was standing over his ball and hitting through an opening in the canvas tent, rocketing a shot that zipped over the heads of hundreds of fans and came to rest pin-high just left of the ninth green.