Golf is a strange old sport. No other sport in the world tests mental strength and muscle memory more, and the ethics and conventions in golf are strictly upheld.
If the hole is laid out in a dogleg format, oftentimes golfers hit to the corner to hit around it; with few trying to cut the corner unless they can make the other side.
Until now.
39 year old Ben Crane has decided that enough is enough. He won't abide my golf's rules and hammer his drive down the fairway to leave a long approach to the green. Instead, Crane decided to cut the corner, hit his ball onto a different fairway on another hole, and save himself a full 40 yards for his approach.
He did have to make the players on the other hole wait for him to hit, but that just highlights the badass-ness of Crane's actions.
Good on ya Ben, but the commentators confused words just highlight how unusual this genius thinking is:
That's an interesting line to take, @bencranegolf. #QuickHits http://t.co/nI7tLuys10
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 24, 2015
I'd like to end this story by saying that it worked for Crane and he recorded a nice easy birdie, but Crane managed to miscue his easy second shot, and had a long two-putt for par. Watch each of his shots on that hole here.
As if the video and picture wasn't enough, but Crane took to twitter to confirm that was his intention all along:
@RyanPalmerPGA @BarstoolTrent @NoLayingUp cut 60 yards off the hole ;-)
— Ben Crane (@bencranegolf) April 25, 2015
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