In hoops speak, Will Gordon had gone cold from the field.
The 26-year-old Davidson, North Carolina, product missed four birdie putts from inside 12 feet on his first seven holes of Saturday’s third round of the Sony Open in Hawaii.
“I had hit so many good putts … I was kind of laughing to my caddie,” Gordon said. “I was like, ‘I hit every one on line, and none of them went in.”
That’s when Gordon started to heat up.
He found his stroke at the par-4 eighth hole with an easy 4-footer birdie before draining four more consecutive birdie putts, his longest from 24 feet at the par-3 11th.