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Angry golfer snaps his club at the British Open

Published Jul. 17, 2016 10:51 a.m. ET

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24-year-old Thomas Pieters had an absolute meltdown on the par-4 11th hole at Royal Troon Sunday. Pieters needed nine shots to finish the hole, and after hitting his seventh to the green he snapped an iron over his knee and tossed it into a gorse bush.

The Railway has claimed two more victims - Thomas Pieters and one of Thomas Pieters' clubs: https://t.co/9lYKl2XUQu pic.twitter.com/fVKN4bCUK7
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) July 17, 2016

That quintuple-bogey somehow didn't completely derail his round. Pieters bounced back with an eagle at the 16th and carded three other birdies to salvage a round of 1-over par - but had he avoided disaster at the 11th, Pieters likely would have recorded a top-10 finish.

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