Tom Hoge makes quintuple-bogey 9 at The Players Championship

The No. 9 has been unlucky this week at The Players Championship.

A day after Keegan Bradley made a quadruple-bogey 9 at the par-5 11th hole of the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, Tom Hoge matched the number but exceeded the shot value of the hole by one. He made a quintuple-bogey 9 at the par-4 seventh hole in the second round on March 13, part of a 5-over 41 on the front nine that included two birdies, two bogeys and four pars.

It wasn’t the record high score at No. 7. That still belongs to Andy Bean, who made a 10 there in the first round of the 1992 tournament.

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How did Tom Hoge make a 9 at No. 7?

• First shot: Hoge pulled his drive into the water.

• Second shot: Penalty. Hoge had to drop just in front of the tee, and had 401 yards to the hole.

• Third shot: Hoge shanked the ball out of heavy rough, hitting it only 86 yards and leaving it in right rough.

• Fourth shot: He hit the ball 93 yards out of heavy rough, but it stayed right.

• Fifth shot: Hoge hit a shot 138 yards but again, it stayed in the right rough.

• Sixth shot: He hit 133 yards to a right greenside bunker, with the ball ending up 94 feet from the hole.

• Seventh shot: Hoge blasted onto the green, with the ball rolling 4 feet, 9 inches from the hole.

• Eighth shot: Hoge missed the putt.

• Ninth shot: He tapped in from 3 feet, 5 inches.

Hoge bogeyed the eighth hole, then parred No. 9.

Hoge is in his eighth Players Championship and has done pretty well the last few years. He tied for third in 2023 and set the 18-hole scoring record with a 62 in the third round. He tied for third again last year with a final-round 66 that left him two shots out of the Rory McIlroy-J.J. Spaun playoff.

This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Tom Hoge’s quintuple-bogey 9 at Players Championship