Huddersfield golfer Chris Hanson endured a miserable finish to his first round in the Australian PGA Championship.
He goes into the second round on eight over par after shooting two triple bogeys and a bogey in his last five holes at the RACV Royal Pines Resort in Queensland.
Hanson summed it up perfectly when he Tweeted: “From cruise control to car crash in nine holes!! 80 +8.”
It is the 30-year-old Woodsome Hall player’s second tournament as a full European Tour cardholder, after he finished T44th to pick up 7,950 euros in last week’s Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek in South Africa.
Starting on the 10th in Australia, Hanson fired a birdie and two pars to get under way solidly, but he then followed with two successive bogeys before another birdie to be level after six.
He reached the turn with three pars to be level at half way, and he was only one over after 13 holes, courtesy of a bogey on the par-three second (his 11th hole).
Hanson’s par-three 14th delivered the first triple bogey and he followed it with a bogey five on the next to be five over.
He gathered himself to record two par fours but, on the par five last, he hit trouble and recorded an eight to play the second half in 44 and record a first-round total of 80.
Hanson will be looking for a big improvement in his second round to make the cut in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
