Justin Rose dishes out a painful blow to an official in Houston
Friday 31 March 2017 19:21, UK
Justin Rose thought he had hit a perfect drive midway through his second round of the Shell Houston Open, only to see his ball cannon into an unsuspecting marshal.
Rose launched a driver down the left at the 17th - his eighth - and he picked up his tee when he saw the line of his ball, which looked on course to pitch in the rough and hop onto the fairway at the slight dogleg-left par-four.
But he clearly didn't see the tournament official who appeared to be bizarrely placed, just a couple of yards in from the fairway, and he was about to pay the price for not being positioned closer to the ropes.
Rose's ball hit the marshal on the top of his leg on the full, which will leave a big bruise come the morning, and the interception cost the Englishman valuable yardage on one of the toughest holes on the course.
His ball actually ricocheted backwards and further into the rough, leaving him 197 yards to the pin for his second. Rose managed to gouge his ball up to the front fringe, but he took three more to get down.
And worse was to follow at the 18th as Rose dumped his second in the water and ran-up a double-bogey six!
Watch the video above to see the tournament official pay the price for standing too close to the fairway in Houston ...
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