Players 2026: Wild lunch hour at TPC Sawgrass sees million-to-one tree ball followed by first ace of the week

Through early Sunday afternoon at the Players Championship, the hole-in-one bettors had little to cheer about. Plenty of shots throughout the week nestled in tight, skipped just over or rattled the flag, but nothing had found the bottom of the cup. Then Kevin Roy’s tee shot on the par-4 12th sailed long and right, took one mighty hop and plopped like a skeeball right into a knot in a nearby tree.

The nearby volunteers seemingly predicted the one-in-a-million shot, with one shouting “I called it! I called it!” as the ball disappeared into the trunk.

It was far from an ace as Roy took his drop and walked away with bogey, but the odds-defying dunk may have woke up the ace gods., Minutes later, Chad Ramey made the first hole-in-one of the 2026 Players—not to mention of his PGA Tour career—on the par-3 13th.

Talk about a wild morning. We’ll see if the darts clinic continues this afternoon as the leaders tee off, but with the likes of Ludvig Aberg, Cam Young and Xander Schauffele riding high on the leaderboard, something tells we might see another one before the day is done.

Players 2026: Wild lunch hour at TPC Sawgrass sees million-to-one tree ball followed by first ace of the week

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