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British Open 2023: Asian Tour winner finds 18th hole greenside ...

British Open 2023 Asian Tour winner finds 18th hole greenside

Thank goodness for the shot tracker on the Open Championship's website. Otherwise, we would never have been able to make sense of how a rising Asian Tour star made a 10 on Royal Liverpool's closing hole on Thursday.

Taichi Kho, who earlier this year became the first player from Hong Kong to win on the Asian Tour, was struggling in his Open debut when he arrived at the 18th hole on Thursday. However, he was coming off a birdie on the controversial 17th hole, and he was just off the green in two on the finishing par 5. But again, those pot bunkers. They'll get you.

Somehow it took eight more shots for the 22-year-old Kho to complete the hole. Here's a look at the shot chart and the play-by-play (all of which can't even fit in that box):

Apparently, Kho left two shots in the bunker before finding some native grass. Then he went back in the bunker. Then he went back in the native grass. Then he took a drop. Then he finally put it on the putting surface and two-putted for a rare double-digit score, two shots worse than even Rickie Fowler, who hit two shots OB on the same hole a little earlier.

That hurts. And, not surprisingly, that dropped Kho all the way to the bottom of the leaderboard on Day 1.

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