Here’s Why There Was A 140-Yard Par-4 At This Week’s PGA TOUR Event
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2019-10-29
By JESSICA MARKSBURY, Golf.com
The second round of the PGA Tour’s inaugural ZOZO Championship is finally being played, after being postponed for an entire day. Friday’s play was cancelled as a typhoon dumped nine inches of rain on Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club in Japan.
After a herculean effort by the course’s 132 maintenance staff members, the course was ready for play to resume on Saturday morning (local time), except for one interesting alteration: the 10th hole, which received the brunt of the flooding, had to be shortened from its normal 376-yard length to a mere 140 yards — but it was still played as a par 4. That’s a short iron for most of the players in the field, so birdies and eagles were regular occurrences throughout the second round.
In fact of the 76 players in the field who played the 10th hole at that length in round two, only 8 of them did not register a birdie or an eagle and not one had worse than 'par.'