The Royal Troon weather may be frightful, but Jamie Donaldson had no idea when he went out early in Sunday’s British Open finale that he should have packed a wetsuit and scuba gear.
A wicked wayward shot on the par-4 12th sent the 2014 European Ryder Cup hero far afield searching for his golf ball — and diving deep into the gorse.
Donaldson clowning around in the gorse https://t.co/NhLtkjQerY pic.twitter.com/A4OmeddArv
— Michael Shamburger (@mshamburger1) July 17, 2016
The 40-year-old from Wales was well out of contention before he disappeared into the bushes; the quadruple-bogey 8 dropped him to 7-over for the day and 12-over for the tournament.