Did Kevin Na Cost Zach Johnson the Players Championship?

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Published: May 15, 2012

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You couldn’t watch Kevin Na play golf last weekend and not feel bad for the guy.

The poor fella was obviously struggling with some kind of mental block when it came to pulling the trigger and spent 10 hours on Saturday and Sunday attempting to fight off demons that had clearly taken hold of his game.

All the while Na was trying his hardest not to be an inconvenience to his playing partners.

“I know TV, Twitters and fans are tired of me backing off,” Na said after his round last Saturday. “But you know, I'm‑‑ I understand people being frustrated with me backing off, but all I can tell you guys is honestly, I'm trying, and it's hard for me, too.”

On Sunday Na made a visible effort to walk as fast as he could down the fairway—he was moving at just short of a jog—in order to get to his ball and give himself enough time to battle his demons and hit his shot while trying not to disrupt the flow of playing partner Matt Kuchar’s round.

If anything, Na probably gained more fans than he lost last weekend due to both his brutal honesty and self-deprecating humor about the matter.  

“It's usually a little waggle, half waggle, little waggle, half waggle, and boom, supposed to pull the triggers.” Na said on Saturday evening at TPC Sawgrass.

He continued:

But if it doesn't work, I've got to go in pairs. So it'll go four; and if it doesn't work, it'll go six; and after that, just ‑‑ there's a lot going on in my head.  And it's not‑‑ I'm not being nice to myself, trust me.  I'm ripping myself.

But despite Na’s inescapable likeability, at the end of the day his slow play was a distraction to his playing partners and he should have been penalized not once, not twice, but numerous times.

Na spent most of Saturday afternoon apologizing to his playing p...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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