Victoria National...Web.com...What a freaking start!!!!

[DCronan]

Tony Finau started his round today on the 2nd nine by going 3-1, which is crazy when one considers those are Par 5 and 3 respectively. Was -7 after 7 and shot a 64 with 4, count them, 4 bogies.

So much for me ever saying "I got off to a hot start" again.........

[Josh Tarble]

My question is how do you come back after an eagle-ace start?  If that was me I'd have shot a 95. 

[Terry Lavin]

Whoa!

[Nigel Islam]

My question is how do you come back after an eagle-ace start?  If that was me I'd have shot a 95. 

Didn't I hear you eagled the first at Crystal Downs? I suspect you came in better than 95.

Isn't there a story about a member at Pine Valley that played the first 5 holes so well he just went straight to the par instead of the next tee?

[Steve Burrows]

Isn't there a story about a member at Pine Valley that played the first 5 holes so well he just went straight to the par instead of the next tee?

I remember that story/legend as well.  Apparently the man started out birdie-eagle-ace-birdie (six-under par through 4 holes), went into the clubhouse which is near the 4th green, and didn't come back out!

[Chris Roselle]

Isn't there a story about a member at Pine Valley that played the first 5 holes so well he just went straight to the par instead of the next tee?

I remember that story/legend as well.  Apparently the man started out birdie-eagle-ace-birdie (six-under par through 4 holes), went into the clubhouse which is near the 4th green, and didn't come back out!

The man of which you speak of was J. Wood Platt and he was one of the great amateur players of all time.

"Platt in some way possessed a formula for handling Pine Valley as he played the first four holes in an incredible 6-under-par some years later. However, he walked off the fourth green, with the statement that he couldn’t do better, only worse."

http://gapgolf.org/detail.asp?id=64&pid=10

[noonan]

The 200 yard par 3 has a small narrow green

[Josh Tarble]

My question is how do you come back after an eagle-ace start?  If that was me I'd have shot a 95. 

Didn't I hear you eagled the first at Crystal Downs? I suspect you came in better than 95.

Isn't there a story about a member at Pine Valley that played the first 5 holes so well he just went straight to the par instead of the next tee?

That may be true.  But I also may have double #2 so it was just a standard par-par start 

[Mark Pearce]

Not quite as tidy a start as Karen Stupples when she won the Women's British Open at Sunningdale when she started eagle-albatross in her final round.

[ward peyronnin]

At one time Tony was seven under on the back side...after six or seven holes. In the end the course got him and all the leaders.

He and third day leader and fourth day leader, all in the last group, crashed and burned the last three holes to hand it to the leader in the clubhouse