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SAVANNAH, Ga. – It’s not uncommon for professional golfers to carry a rulebook in their golf bags. On Saturday at Korn Ferry Tour Q-School, Chris Crisologo could’ve also used a dictionary.
Nonuple bogey: Being nine times as great or as many over par.
Crisologo, a 26-year-old from Vancouver, was cruising along nicely in his second round of final stage, 6 under for the tournament thanks to a 4-under-through-five-holes start at The Landings Club’s Marshwood Course. Then he arrived at the par-4 13th hole, where he proceeded to hit four tee shots into the penalty area and card a nonuple-bogey 13.
“I did lip out my putt for 12,” said Crisologo, who otherwise didn’t drop a shot during a second-round, 3-over 74.
While a par on the hole would’ve slotted Crisologo in the top five and just three off Chan Kim’s lead, he remains in the mix for guaranteed starts. At 1 over, Crisologo is three back of a logjam at T-28, and the top 40 and ties after Monday’s final round receive eight guaranteed starts to kick off next year’s KFT season.
“I’m lucky there are two more days,” Crisologo said. “One of the caddies said it best: Better to have it today than on Monday.”
Crisologo fancies himself a strong driver of the golf ball, but with a tight landing area and water left and through the fairway, plus a hard right-to-left wind, it was just enough to instill a little doubt with the big stick.
The first drive was left the whole way. Splash.
The third shot, and second tee ball, was a 3-iron, which ran through the fairway. Splash again.
Another 3-iron, the fifth shot, suffered the same fate. So, too, did the 4-iron that Crisologo hit with his seventh shot.
Finally, he got another 4-iron, his ninth shot in play.
“Push-blocked that one into the middle of the fairway,” quipped Crisologo, who then short-sided himself in a greenside bunker from 240 yards out before just missing a 17-footer for octuple bogey.
“I felt great off the tee on all five shots,” Crisologo…
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