BETHESDA, Md. – Lexi Thompson blistered a drive down the par-4 17th on Congressional’s Blue Course to the flat area, leaving herself 102 yards for the approach. She took an extra club – her 50-degree wedge – to control the spin and relied on the crowd’s reaction to tell her the rest.
The roar said it all.
The ball zipped back to the hole and dropped in for eagle, the highlight of her 5-under 67 in Round 2 of the KPMG Women’s PGA. Though the divot that she watched fly down her shirt on the par-5 16th, as if it were in slow motion, was pretty hard to forget, too.
