PGA Tour's broken shot

Duncan broke his driver at the beginning of the 15th par 4 hole in round 2 of the Corales Puntacana Championship on March 24.

"I've never seen anything like it and don't know the cause. Immediately after contacting the ball, I had a weird feeling. I don't know where the ball went. Looking back, I see the clubhead bouncing on the grass and then in the sand. But as it turned out, it was perfect," Duncan said at the end of the match.

Duncan said he has been trying out the new driver since early February but has not yet put it into action. And the tree that just had a problem was replaced with the used head last week.

Thanks to the ball down the middle of the fairway on hole 15, Duncan put the ball on the green on the second shot, 3.3 meters from the hole, and from there he recorded a birdie. The remaining three holes, he holds par. That section, Duncan was replaced with a new driver under Article 4.1 of the golf rules because the previous tree was unintentionally broken. However, he could not manage in time, so he played with a wooden stick 3, at holes 16 and 18, both par4s, and hole 17 used irons because of par3.

The whole game, Duncan got a total of eight birdies, one bogey. After two rounds, he scored -8 while the top of the table was at -11, belonging to Matt Wallace. Right behind Wallace are two hands at T2 (-10).

Duncan is 33 years old, playing professionally since 2012. He has gone through 161 tournaments on the PGA Tour, including one cup, at the RSM Classic 2019, and the combined prize money reached $5,526 million.

Corales Puntacana Championship 2023 takes place on par72 with a prize fund of $3.8 million. This stroke tournament, which takes place in parallel with Dell Match Play, is a personal hole match in Texas that brings together the top 64 in the world to compete for a prize fund of 20 million USD. According to PGA Tour practice, the champion portion makes up 18% of the bonus budget.