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Apparently, club pro Bob Sowards started a trend from which there was no escape, sort of like when the lead sled dog falls off a cliff, pulling the others along behind.

All week, players have dreaded the walk down the 18th hole at Atlanta Athletic Club, a 507-yard par 4 that has produced two terrific dramas in a past U.S. Open and PGA Championship.

Amend that to terrific traumas.

Once Sowards opened the door, the last hole in a stretch that Phil Mickelson described as "calamity," became outright chaotic, setting the stage for what could be one memorable, massive pileup on the weekend at the 93rd PGA Championship.

Soward was the lowest club pro in the field as he played the 18th in the second round on Friday, but he plopped a ball in the water on the last and made a triple bogey to miss the cut...

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