ESPN’s top 100 professional athletes of the 21st century: Unveiling 76 to 100

Joel Dahmen took 68 strokes to complete his first round at the Wyndham Championship. Three of them came from the same spot. It resulted in a triple-bogey on the par-4 14th, Dahmen’s fifth hole of the day. He bounced back with five birdies and no bogeys the remainder of the way, however. Entering this week, there had been just 11 rounds this season in which a player shot 68 or lower with a triple-bogey or worse (Patton Kizzire and Chris Kirk each had two apiece). So, what happened on 14? His caddie, Geno Bonnalie, explained the situation on Twitter, writing, “Ball was sitting … perfectly on top of a tuft of Bermuda. Took a practice swing a foot from the ball, and the ball fell to the bottom. Had to replace it (1 stroke [penalty]). Then went right underneath it the 2nd time and it didn’t move. 3 strokes from the same spot. Golf is hard.” In another tweet, Bonnalie said they were “not certain he caused it to move, but not certain he didn’t either.” Dahmen penalized himself because he could not be certain that his actions did not cause the ball to move. He was penalized one stroke under Rule 9.4, “Ball Lifted or Moved by Player,” which states that a player is penalized one stroke and must replace his ball if he causes it to move. Dahmen, who earned his first PGA TOUR victory at this year’s Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, is 76th in the FedExCup standings. Statistically speaking, Dahmen lost -1.4 strokes around the green on that one hole. This is how ShotLink described the triple-bogey: Shot 1: 316 yards to right fairway, 195 yards to hole Shot 2: 185 yards to right rough, 60 ft. 3 in. to hole Shot 3: Penalty Shot 4: 19 in. to right rough, 58 ft. 10 in. to hole Shot 5: 89 ft. 1 in. to green, 30 ft. 2 in. to hole Shot 6: putt 28 ft. 5 in., 23 in. to hole Shot 7: in the hole

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2022 Sentry Tournament of Champions, Round 2 Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Cameron Smith (1, -17, 42.3%) 2. Jon Rahm (T2, -14, 20.0%) 3. Daniel Berger (T2, -14, 12.9%) 4. Patrick Cantlay (4, -13, 11.4%) 5. Sungjae Im (T5, -12, 3.4%) 6. Hideki Matsuyama (T5, -12, 2.8%) 7. Sam Burns (T8, -10, 1.1%) 8. Kevin Na (7, -11, 1.0%) 9. Bryson DeChambeau (T15, -9, 0.9%) 10. Xander Schauffele (T8, -10, 0.9%) Top Strokes-Gained Performers from Round 2: Putting: Max Homa +3.0 Around the Green: Jason Kokrak +1.1 Approach the Green: Patrick Cantlay +3.7 Off-the-tee: Jon Rahm +1.7 Total: Cameron Smith +3.8 NOTE: These reports are based off of the live predictive model run by @DataGolf. The model provides live “Make Cut”, “Top 20”, “Top 5”, and “Win” probabilities every 5 minutes from the opening tee shot to the final putt of every PGA TOUR event. Briefly, the model takes account of the current form of each golfer as well as the difficulty of their remaining holes, and probabilities are calculated from 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of the Sentry Tournament of Champions, or to see how each golfer’s probabilities have evolved from the start of the event to the current time, click here for the model’s home page.

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Tiger Woods’ iron game deserted him. His putter showed up out of nowhere. His first round at the U.S. Open was solid, even if it made little sense. We go through every hole to try and explain it.

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