For leisure golfers, the maddening feeling of taking part in solidly all through a spherical aside from one disastrous gap is hardly unfamiliar territory.
Nonetheless, it’s not typically PGA Tour gamers expertise the form of calamitous gap Luke List endured in the course of the third spherical of the World Wide Technology Championship.
Luke Checklist’s octople bogey left him rooted in seventy fifth on the leaderboard
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The 2-time PGA Tour winner was one in every of 75 gamers to make the minimize on the El Cardonal at Diamante event in Mexico, and he started the third spherical on a extremely respectable seven underneath, 10 behind in a single day chief Matti Schmid.
While that gave him work to do to force his way into serious contention, he began steadily enough, with three successive partners after teeing off at the 10th.
There were few warning signs of what was to come for List, even with successive bogeys at the 13th and 14th (his fourth and fifth of the day) to leave him two over for the round, before it all unravelled spectacularly at the par 4 15th.
There, List somehow contrived to make an octuple-bogey 12 to leave him 10 over for the round after just six holes.
Remarkably, eight of his shots came from the fairway, with just one played from the native area. However, as noted by Golf podcaster and CBS Sports’ Rick Gehman on X, that also includes shots around the green.
So that’s Luke List taking eight shots from the fairway.I ran it back seven years and that would be the most “FW Shots” on a single hole.Probably worth noting that “fairway” also counts around-the-green in many cases. Harris English (below) just kept chipping it over the green https://t.co/yXLUDVMN6r pic.twitter.com/ZGoNMDbH09November 8, 2025
After lastly reaching the inexperienced together with his tenth shot, Checklist then accomplished the opening with two putts.
Instantly, from the opportunity of clambering into the higher echelons of the leaderboard as his spherical progressed, Checklist discovered himself all-time low of the gamers who made it past the midway stage in seventy fifth and on three over for the event.
Whereas there’s likelihood Checklist’s catastrophe on the fifteenth left him wishing the bottom would swallow him up, to his credit score, he didn’t let it harm his scorecard additional within the holes that instantly adopted.
The 40-year-old responded with a run of seven successive pars to regular the ship, earlier than three additional bogeys on his 14th, sixteenth and 18th of the spherical left him 13 over for the day and 6 over for the event.
Whereas Checklist’s capitulation on the fifteenth means he’s now taking part in for pleasure on the occasion, there could possibly be wider implications for his PGA Tour standing.
Luke Checklist’s most up-to-date PGA Tour victory got here on the 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship
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Checklist started the occasion 157th within the FedEx Cup Fall standings, with solely the highest 100 after the ultimate FedEx Cup Fall occasion incomes a full PGA Tour card for the 2026 season, and with Checklist even at risk of failing to attain conditional standing, which is reserved for these ending between one hundred and first and a hundred and twenty fifth.
The latest of Checklist’s PGA Tour wins, which came in October 2023 at the Sanderson Farms Championship, additionally gained’t do something for his taking part in privileges, together with his exempt standing gained from that win coming to an finish after this season.
Following the World Large Know-how Championship, solely two FedEx Cup Fall tournaments stay, the Butterfield Bermuda Championship and the RSM Basic.
Checklist has been confirmed within the area for the primary of these occasions, the place he’ll hope to get again on observe with a efficiency nearer to his better of the season to this point, a T8 on the ISCO Championship.
Earlier than then, he faces the likelihood of a stressed night time not solely replaying in his thoughts the catastrophe that was his octuple bogey within the third spherical but in addition the prospect of going through his new nemesis, the fifteenth, as soon as once more on Sunday.
