‘It stings’: Ben Kohles ends Nelson hopes with flubbed chip, final bogey

Ben Kohles was once attempting his perfect to peer the silver lining, however he nonetheless couldn’t cover the ache.

“In fact it stings, proper?” Kohles mentioned. “You are feeling such as you had it proper there and let it slip away.”

Kohles had simply birdied back-to-back holes Sunday on the CJ Cup Byron Nelson when he stepped at the tee field at TPC Craig Ranch’s par-5 18th hollow with a one-shot lead over Taylor Pendrith. Two photographs later, Kohles discovered himself with a difficult lie within the tough, between two bunkers and in need of the golf green.

Kohles stuck his first chip heavy, and his ball didn’t come on the subject of achieving the golf green, as an alternative burying in a worse lie simply outdoor the nearest bunker to the outlet.

“It was once sitting up just a little bit, however truthfully hadn’t noticed any tough like that each one week,” Kohles mentioned. “Yeah, simply did not hit a really perfect shot. Simply wanted just a little bit extra umph on it. I roughly perhaps de-celled just a little bit. … In truth, after that first chip, I used to be in an attractive screwed spot.”

From there, Kohles didn’t rise up and down, lacking a 5-footer for par that might’ve compelled a playoff with Pendrith, who birdied the outlet. Kohles’ final bogey was once the one rating worse than par on No. 18 all spherical (66 avid gamers).

“[The par putt] lacked most certainly just a little little bit of velocity, and I most certainly had to get started it proper middle as an alternative of enjoying it immediately,” Kohles mentioned. “… I believe like I hit a excellent putt, so I am not going to carry my head on that and simply take the entire positives and spot what we will be able to do subsequent week.”