One Day After Worst Hole of His Career, Chad Ramey Enjoys Uneventful Round at Memorial

Ramey rang up a huge number on the par-4 9th hole on Thursday, but on Friday he shot a 74 and said he never considered withdrawing from the event.

DUBLIN, Ohio – Chad Ramey is not a household name, but when he recorded a 13 on the par-4 9th hole in the first round of the Memorial Tournament on Thursday, he became a social media topic.

Ramey, a second year PGA Tour pro, sat in the 9th fairway on Thursday with just 106 yards left and hit his 60-degree wedge into the water.

He walked to the drop area, 49 yards away from the hole, and proceeded to hit his fourth, sixth, eighth and 10th shots from that drop zone before 3-putting from 31 feet.

Chad Ramey, a professional golfer, made a 13 after hitting his drive 300 yards down the middle and having 100 yards in from the fairway on his second shot.

Even on my worst day, and there have been some bad ones, I’ve never come close to something like that. pic.twitter.com/6Hd5Pg12Yl

— fed_speak (@fed_speak) June 1, 2023

It was the worst score ever recorded at the 9th hole at Muirfield Village in the 48 years of the Memorial Tournament, and it was Ramey’s highest score on a hole in his PGA Tour career.

Ramey said he tried to get a little cute with the some of his wedge shots from the drop area in what was as close to a Tin Cup moment you would ever see on the PGA Tour.

“I just kept trying to hit the same shot and kept hitting them in the water,” Ramey said after signing for a second round 2-over 74. “So that's part of, it's a really tough course and a little bit of brain-dead yesterday on the last hole. That's all right.”

Ramey never thought of withdrawing, but instead went home to his three-month old son Nolan and hung out with him, eventually putting him to bed, calling the evening just like any other day.

On Friday, Ramey had a better experience on the 9th, hitting a 3-wood off the tee, a full wedge from 138 yards and two-putted from nine feet in a small triumph.

“Never crossed my mind,” Ramey said of withdrawing.” I'm still trying to prepare every day like I knew I could come out here in these 18 holes and learn from it and get something out of it. So that's what I'm gonna do.”

In the immediate aftermath, Ramey didn’t have anything he could exactly point to that he learned from Thursday, but he believes that will come over time.