Way more often than we'd like to count, we share you video of the horrible things the wind does to golfers, particularly when their balls are on the green. This isn't one of those kinds of stories.
For once, the wind did something to help a putt.
Shanshan Feng had just missed her birdie putt on the 17th hole in the final round of the Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic. She was bummed to have missed the putt and walked up quickly after it to tap in for par. However, before she could finish out, the wind did it for her, blowing her ball 3 inches into the hole.
Feng is stunned, and she has no idea if she's going to get a penalty for putting her putter behind the ball as the wind affects it. However, under the Rules of Golf, whatever the wind does to a ball placed on the green counts related to the prior stroke. In other words, since Feng never made the par putt, it goes down as a birdie.
