Tommy Fleetwood Makes A 10 At The Arnold Palmer Invitational But Is Still Not On John Daly's Level

Tommy Fleetwood made a 10 on the Par 5 6th hole at Bay Hill during Friday's second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. While a professional golfer carding a double-digit score on a hole is incredibly rare, the Englishman's disaster doesn't come close to the nightmare John Daly suffered on the exact same hole in 1998.

Fleetwood started Friday's round at 1-over par and seven shots back of leader Shane Lowry. With every player within 10 shots of the leader at day's end making the cut in this week's signature event, Fleetwood was in a good, not great spot. With bogeys on three of his first five holes, however, things got tighter before completely unraveling on the sixth hole.

Fleetwood managed to hit the fairway with a 318-yard drive leaving him a very manageable 236 yards left to reach the Par 5. The only issue was the gigantic body of water between him and the flag, which he found not once, but three straight times with his approach shots. He finally found land with his eighth shot and two-putted from there for his comfy 10.

The Shot Trace from the hole is rather gross.

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Fleetwood shot a whopping nine-over 45 on his opening nine holes before shooting 1-under on the back nine en route to an 80 and a missed cut.

The one positive of Fleetwood making his 10 is that it gives us a perfect excuse to look back at the 1998 Bay Hill Invitational when Daly made an 18 on the Par 5 6th hole, and actually managed to do so in an entirely different fashion.

Daly, one of the longest hitters of his generation, attempted to drive the green from the tee. While Fleetwood hitting three golf balls in the water sounds alarming, Daly put five in the drink back in '98. He even hit another shot off of a rock before signing for an 18 on the hole and 85 on the day.

Daly won five times on the PGA Tour and two major championships, but this may be the most legendary feat of his career.