Karrie Webb had just chipped in for eagle at the Dundonald’s 14th hole and was on her way to her first win in three years on Sunday in Scotland.
The Women’s Scottish Open was beckoning.
Then golf happened.
She missed a short putt at the 16th and thought her drive was perfect at the par four 17th. It wasn’t. She founded one of those gosh-awful pot bunkers and the are pure hazards. She found another greenside and by the time she holed out, she took a dreadful double and turned the lead over to Mi Hyang Lee. A birdie at the 18th simply made it a one-shot loss. A tough one for the Hall of Fame player from Australia who held the 54-hole lead.
“Very gutted,” was how she described her emotions afterward. “I thought I knotted my three-wood at 17, I picked up the tee and my caddie told me it went in the pot bunker.”
In Scotland, pot bunkers ruin scores and that’s what happened to Webb.
To her credit, Lee played incredible golf over the weekend. She trailed 36-hole leader Cristie Kerr by nine shots but shot 68 on Saturday in the bad conditions. Her closing 66 got her to six-under, a shot better than Webb and fellow South Korean M.J. Hur.
For Webb, winner of 41 LPGA events, 15 Ladies European Tour events and seven majors, there’s this week’s Women’s British Open.
Hopefully she’ll stay out of the pot bunkers.
