Anybody see the ridiculous and completely unbelievable ending to the lpga event yesterday?
Lexi and Nelly in the final group, duking it out the entire round until the 17th hole. Nelly misses the green long and left from about 130 yards, hits into a bunker, chips out a bit long, then three putts, including a miss from about two feet. Cards a triple. Meanwhile, Lexi hits the green, leaves her lag putt four feet short, and misses the four footer, carding bogey. This leaves her two shots ahead of Nelly going into 18.
On 18, both hit good drives. Lexi leaves her approach about 25 feet short and with a difficult putt that goes over a ridge; nelly gets to about 15 feet with an uphill putt that breaks just a bit to the right.
Lexi lags to about four feet. Nelly makes the birdie. Lexi now has a four foot slider to win the tournament, which she, of course, misses low.
This leads to a four-person playoff, as two other players who thought they were iutmo. It ended up tying for the win when Lexi finished bogey-bogey and Nelly finished triple-birdie (both dropping two shots in the last two holes).
It gets weirder. They play the 18th hole again in the playoff. The two others miss the green. Nelly hits her approach to almost the exact same somewhere she was in regulation; along the exact same line but maybe two feet further away. Lexi, who had bombed her drive, hits last, and gets the ball to almost the exact same spot where she had the putt to win it previously, maybe a foot further, at most, and on the exact same line.
You could write the rest of this, I'm sure. Both the others chip up to within about eight feet. Nelly drains the putt for birdie again, so the other two pick up their balls. Lexi funds herself center stage, facing the same putt she had just missed 20 minutes earlier, this time to keep the playoff going. This time she missed it high.
So, let's recap. Lexi missed four-foot putts on 17, on 18 during regulation, and on 18 again in the playoff, leaving the win to Nelly, despite the ridiculous triple bogey at 17. Jaw-dropping.