US Open: Ian Poulter’s charge halted by nightmare triple bogey late in second round in New York
16th June 2018, 1:35 am == IAN POULTER suffered an incredible meltdown just when he was poised to turn up the heat on world No 1 Dustin Johnson at the US Open. Poulter was breathing down Johnson’s neck as a birdie at his 16th hole, the notorious par three seventh, took him to within a shot of the lead. Getty Images - Getty Ian Poulter had a late meltdown when he was just one shot off the lead There seemed little danger when the English ace tugged his approach to the eighth into a greenside bunker – but that was the start of a series of calamities that saw him crash to a triple bogey seven. Poulter skulled his bunker shot over the green into an area of wasteland, and made things a lot worse by duffing his chip shot into a patch of gnarly rough short of the green. He only just managed to find the edge of the putting surface from that awful lie with his fifth shot, and he needed two putts before ending the agony. Poulter looked shell-shocked as he plummeted from three under par to level...
