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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- The leader was beginning his final round at the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass on Sunday as Bob Estes stood in the parking lot digesting his final-round 65, which tied for the low round of the week. Like many on the property, Estes was thinking about the curious case of Kevin Na, the leader, who reminded Estes of a teenager in Abilene, Texas, who couldn’t get settled over the ball, who kept looking at the target, who couldn’t pull the trigger.
Estes had the same problem as Na.
“It was just as bad,” said Estes, 46. “It was embarrassing.”
Na’s herky-jerky pileup of waggles, half-waggles and last-second swing cancellations was the talk of Sawgrass this weekend, and it raised several questions. Is the slow play problem on Tour getting better? “Worse,” Tiger Woods said. Is Na’s dilemma more like a verbal stutter, or is it more like second-baseman Chuck Knoblauch suddenly losing the ability to throw a baseball to first base?
The thorniest question of all: Should we feel sorry for Kevin Na?
“I’m not being nice to myself, trust me,” Na said during his alternately awkward and hilarious press conference Saturday. “I’m ripping myself.”
Na answered every question about his swing stutter. He made fun of himself, and most everyone in the room laughed with him. He feels horrible about his condition, whatever it is. Playing with Jim Furyk at Hilton Head earlier this year, Na backed off a shot and apologized. “It was the first time I’d ever seen a player do that,” Furyk said. Na apologized to Zach Johnson on Saturday.
http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/k...-shooting-final-round-76-players-championship
Estes had the same problem as Na.
“It was just as bad,” said Estes, 46. “It was embarrassing.”
Na’s herky-jerky pileup of waggles, half-waggles and last-second swing cancellations was the talk of Sawgrass this weekend, and it raised several questions. Is the slow play problem on Tour getting better? “Worse,” Tiger Woods said. Is Na’s dilemma more like a verbal stutter, or is it more like second-baseman Chuck Knoblauch suddenly losing the ability to throw a baseball to first base?
The thorniest question of all: Should we feel sorry for Kevin Na?
“I’m not being nice to myself, trust me,” Na said during his alternately awkward and hilarious press conference Saturday. “I’m ripping myself.”
Na answered every question about his swing stutter. He made fun of himself, and most everyone in the room laughed with him. He feels horrible about his condition, whatever it is. Playing with Jim Furyk at Hilton Head earlier this year, Na backed off a shot and apologized. “It was the first time I’d ever seen a player do that,” Furyk said. Na apologized to Zach Johnson on Saturday.
http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/k...-shooting-final-round-76-players-championship
