Jim "Bones" Mackay said J.J. Spaun purposely dropped his golf ball on a sprinkler head to get relief from the rough into the fairway.

The howling gusts softened closer to whisper. The golf ball sailed. Spaun thought it was stopping short. The blue waters around the Island Green told a different story. "I didn't know what to tell ...

Kendall has been with Newsweek since February, 2025 and previously managed SB Nation's golf content ... The look on Spaun's face as the ball sailed the green said it all. He had a look of ...

Mind you, there was a lot of golf left if the 34-year-old PGA Tour ... However, you might be able to see in the picture a sprinkler head near Spaun's ball. As it turned out, Spaun’s feet were ...

but Spaun’s ball was tracking toward a spot where it would land, then spin back toward the cup. If you were watching on the grounds, or viewing on Golf Channel, you saw it didn’t. But Spaun ...

J.J. Spaun briefly paused his interview with TPC Sawgrass to rematch his water ball shot, which decided his fate for the Players Championship on Monday morning.

McIlroy perfectly skipped one of his shots over a pond to get it across to the other side of the green, but he nearly bopped ...

When Spaun got to his ball in the rough, he was standing on the ... The drop drew the ire of many golf fans on social media, questioning its validity. The NBC broadcast never showed the drop ...

The howling gusts softened closer to whisper. The golf ball sailed. Spaun thought it was stopping short. The blue waters around the Island Green told a different story. "I didn't know what to tell it, ...

J.J. Spaun got off to a rocky start in the final round of the 2025 Players Championship, making two bogeys and no birdies through his opening eight holes. But his fortunes changed on the par-5 ninth, ...