Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia were forced to take a fall in the Sawgrass management field, since the third round of the players championship descended to chaos.
The two night leaders had spent almost 20 minutes in the fifth hole, looking for their balls, walking on the bushes and in contact with the officials, before they finally hit their approaches to the Green.
At that time, the final match had sent their units to the trees and both had chosen to take a non -playable fall.
Lee and Bhatia went to almost 70 yards farther from the hole, on the other side of the tree line, to shoot the Green.
That saw them wandering on the back of the practice area. From there, they hit a blind shot towards the Green from more than 250 yards.
The television air cameras were forced to fly in the sky to show their long route from the practice area to the hole.
Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia were forced to take a drop in the Sawgrass management field
Both sent their units to the bushes during the third round of the players championship
A PGA Tour graph shows exactly where the players had to take their third shots of
Lee and Bhatia were forced to the back of the driving range to give their approximation shots
On a windy day in Florida, none of the players could handle better than the double bogey in pair four. That knocked Lee from the top of the classification table: the joint leader had maintained before loading a six.
For Bhatia, meanwhile, it limited a calamitous start for the third round in TPC Sawgras. The left man, one protected from Phil Mickleson, birmed the opening hole to move at 12 under par.
Unfortunately, Bhatia then dropped four shots in the next four holes.
Both players had already taken the picturesque route around the first Sawgrass holes, among them they only hit an eight street in the first five holes.
Lee then followed his double bogey with another rebel path that found the trees, and another fallen shot.