On a day when golf's finest were brought to their knees by slick greens and tough pin placements at TPC Sawgrass, Briton Russell Knox lamented a disastrous nine on the short 17th hole that sent him crashing out of contention at the Players Championship. Coming into the penultimate hole only five strokes adrift of leader Jason Day, the Scot hit three balls into the water surrounding the island green before ending up with a six-over he described as an “epic fail”. The nightmarish nine was compounded by a three-putt bogey at the closing hole and Knox ended with an eight-over 80 to drop into a tie for 40th, 13 shots behind Day at the end of the third round. More...