It happened during the opening round at the Omega European Masters in August, on the 292-yard seventh hole at Switzerland’s spectacular Golf Club Crans-sur-Sierre. Trying to ride a wind off the right, French professional Victor Perez instead flared his 3-wood tee shot 30 yards right of a boundary fence and into an adjacent field. “[Going out-of-bounds] was literally the only thing I could do to mess up a pretty simple hole. Now I’m thinking, Hitting 3, don’t make a 6.”
Perez, 31, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, promptly re-teed and smoked the next one, with the original intended high draw, the ball landing on the front of the green and feeding toward the cup—same guy, same club. “Like they say, second team All-American on my second ball,” Perez quips. He…