Tony Finau gets into trouble on the 15th Green in Memorial Park, leading to a 4-putt.
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On Saturday in the Texas Children’s Houston Open, Tony Finau worked his way to Stelling. But then a disaster struck when he made a late and devastating 4-putt with a miss of only 3 centimeters.
Finau’s short miss
The incident took place on the par-3 15th hole of Memorial Park in round 3. At that time, Finau had exchanged two birdies for two bogeys to stay on five for the tournament.
A series of Birdies to close his round would bring him into battle for his first victory of the season on Sunday. And although he received that series of red figures, he continued with a car accident of a well performance at 15.
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Finau’s Tee-shot on the 122-meter hole ended at the back of the Green, just 41 feet from the cup. Although Birdie seemed unlikely, a routine Tweeputt-Par would keep his hope alive on the last three holes.
The first putt of the six times PGA Tour winner was not ideal, but it left him only 3-foot, 8-inch to secure his par. But it didn’t go well, as the ESPN+ crew noticed.
“Big tone pulled it and it breaks left …”
Finau’s Putt squeezed the left side of the hole and turned 3 centimeters by. But from there it got worse. While the announcer was still talking, Finau walked to his ball and tried to tap it from the other side of the cup. But he lit it and his ball stopped 1 inch short.
“Oh! And he missed that!” The ESPN+ Play-by-Play man went in shock.
Finau then successfully tapped in his fourth putt for a painful double bogey 5.
While he succeeded in getting both shots back by making Birdie on his next two holes, 16 and 17, Finau even finished in the day, so he had 12 shots behind the leader Min Woo Lee and with zero hope in a seventh PGA Tour victory on Sunday.
How often PGA Tour Pros Short Putts miss
Finau’s 4-putt seems worse when we look at how PGA Tour Pros usually perform on short puts.
So far this season the tour average for putts has been made of 3 feet 99.54%. Unbelievable, 70 players have made every 3-footer with which they had to deal with in 2025. Finau’s make percentage from that distance, 99.57%, is slightly higher than the average Tour Pro. But it was 100% for Saturday.
From 5 feet the Tour average drops to 81.2%, although four players still make a perfect 100% percentage of 5 feet on this point in the season. However, Finau has been below the average from that distance and makes puts of 5 foot 73.33% of the time, which is T146 on tour.
