This might be one of the stranger superstitions to uphold if William Mouw buys into what happened to his putting in the second round of the ISCO Championship on Friday.
Mouw, the tournament's defending champion, only made 50 feet of putts in Thursday's opening round and ranked 116th in the field in strokes gained on the greens. In search of some different mojo, he half-joked with his caddie that the flat stick was so cold that he was going to put it into boiling water.
Then … he actually did it, and the result was he rolled in 105 feet of putts, making five birdies on his front nine, and finished with a seven-under 63 at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Ky., to sit solo sixth at nine under heading into the weekend.
"I put my putting in hot water last night and it stayed hot. I woke up with it hot out of the water and stayed hot all round. That was nice," Mouw said.
"I'm going to do it tonight, too," he added.
Mouw, the tournament's defending champion, only made 50 feet of putts in Thursday's opening round and ranked 116th in the field in strokes gained on the greens. In search of some different mojo, he half-joked with his caddie that the flat stick was so cold that he was going to put it into boiling water.
Then … he actually did it, and the result was he rolled in 105 feet of putts, making five birdies on his front nine, and finished with a seven-under 63 at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Ky., to sit solo sixth at nine under heading into the weekend.
"I put my putting in hot water last night and it stayed hot. I woke up with it hot out of the water and stayed hot all round. That was nice," Mouw said.
"I'm going to do it tonight, too," he added.
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