Brandon Berry, after seeing one score on Crestview Country Club’s 7th hole, offered his experience on Thursday on the par-4. His tee ball barely found water, he said, before his second attempt barely cleared it, hit a cart path and rolled to 15 feet.
Both Goya and Berry were playing this week’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Wichita Open, a Korn Ferry Tour event that has been played at Crestview CC for the past 25 years. And the 467-yard, par-4 7th offers a choice: The hole doglegs left with water on the left, so players can play up the fairway, then hit a shot into the green, or they can try to carry the water — Berry said you’d need to hit it about 300 yards — and play something short from there. (You can watch a flyover video of the hole by clicking here.)
“Crazy hole,” Berry wrote on social media in response to French. Berry, of course, tried to carry the water during Thursday’s first round.
Unclear from that was whether Goya was trying to play over the water, or play his ball to the right of it, but a Korn Ferry Tour communications official confirmed to GOLF.com that he hit five tee shots. In total, Goya finished with five penalty strokes and an octuple-bogey 12 on the hole.
He then played seven more holes, before withdrawing on the 15th hole.
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