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They say every golfer needs a bit of luck.
Marc Leishman got a huge dose of the stuff during yesterday’s opening round of the Dell Technologies Championship at TPC Boston.
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Playing the par-4 sixth, the Aussie found himself with a tricky lie on the edge of a fairway bunker. He semi-shanked his escape, sending his ball hurtling towards the out of bounds stakes… only for it to cannon back off a spectator’s legs, and bounce onto the green.
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That set up an unlikely, 56-foot birdie chance for Leishman – who, incredibly, converted it!
Check out the footage below.
UNBELIEVABLE!@MarcLeish nearly goes OB, ends up on the green and makes the 56-foot birdie!#LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/lzHHSw8cht
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 31, 2018
Leishman later tweeted: “Sometimes it’s better to be (extremely) lucky than good!”
We’ll say!
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