Graeme McDowell's Abu Dhabi Bank Shot

An unbylined Belfast Telegraph item sets up Graeme McDowell's strategic approach to Abu Dhabi's finishing hole Sunday, not long after he made an ace.

Lying in sand, 80 yards shy of the green, after "the worst lay-up in history", McDowell hit his gap-wedge thin. His ball ricocheted noisily off the grandstand and rolled back onto the green, stopping just six feet from the cup.

McDowell won three free nights a year for the rest of his life in Abu Dhabi's seven-star Emirates Palace Hotel with the third ace of the week at 12. In all, he's landed nine holes-in-one, three as a pro, not to mention three albatrosses.

McDowell finished third.