Every week in the past Nicolas Colsaerts wasn’t even taking part in within the Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship.
Now he comes away from St Andrews with a second place and his taking part in privileges sorted for subsequent yr.
The Belgian produced rounds of 65-65-65-70 and his third spherical at Kingsbarns was notably spectacular given he had an eagle on the third, 4 extra birdies and in addition the rarest of birds on the sixteenth.
Colsaerts by some means managed to make a two on the par 5 to develop into simply the fourth participant to realize such a feat on the Dunhill.
The membership of selection was a 6-iron and the strategy shot got here in from 223 yards and the outcome noticed the ball use the backslope completely, not that he knew what had occurred.
ALBATROSS @NicoColsaerts makes an albatross on the sixteenth at Kingsbarns! #dunhilllinks pic.twitter.com/augYNri4kF
— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) October 5, 2024
“If you play Kingsbarns and also you play 16 and also you see that ball down the left, that’s clearly the place you want to see the flag, which isn’t the standard spot truly,” mentioned the 41-year-old.
“That 6-iron simply got here out completely. I used to be like, I’m going to take an opportunity and attempt to fly it in there, and I noticed the ball coming again down the backstop, I used to be like, OK, and I put the 2 fingers within the air. Tremendous particular. An albatross is fairly uncommon, actually satisfied, yeah.
“I noticed certainly one of you guys with a digicam on the again that advised me it was in. I might have been fairly pleased with a tap-in three however after all a cherry on the cake holing a 6-iron for an albatross 2 on a par 5 is fairly cool.”
Colsaerts would end with a two-under 70 on the Outdated Course to return up one shot shy of three-time winner Tyrrell Hatton.
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