Even on the PGA Tour's slowest greens, pros are missing plenty of short putts at the windy Butterfield Bermuda Championship

The Port Royal Golf Course can be a dicey proposition.

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Nov 17, 2024 - 11:26
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Even on the PGA Tour's slowest greens, pros are missing plenty of short putts at the windy Butterfield Bermuda Championship

The Port Royal Golf Course can be a dicey proposition.

It’s the shortest golf course used on PGA Tour in 2024 and when the wind picks up, hoo-boy it can be fun to watch, if not exactly fun to play.

After Saturday’s round, Justin Lower had opinions on the conditions everyone had to deal with.

“I don’t think that’s golf if you ask me,” he said about the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th holes. “Balls were going backwards in the air and I just, I realize that a lot of people had to play in it, but I don’t think it’s fair if that makes sense. I think if a top-10 or top-15 player in the world was here and they wanted to stop, I think the rules officials would have said ‘Yeah, we’ll stop.’ When anyone else in the field, if we would have said ‘I don’t feel comfortable playing in this’ we would have been told ‘tough’ and to proceed with the round. So that’s how I feel about it.”

On Sunday, Golf Channel announcers pointed out the greens were the slowest on Tour and that’s largely due to how much wind can affect golfers, and putting was indeed an adventure.

Justin Lower had this look but missed:

Then there was Rafael Campos:

Andrew Novak unwittingly got in on it:

And then Campos got bit by the bug again, this time lipping out a shortie from about 18 inches.

 

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