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    Watch Robert Streb nearly hole this clutch approach shot en route to winning the RSM Classic

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    Robert Streb will never forget his approach shot on the second playoff hole at the 2020 RSM Classic.

    Sam Greenwood

    If PGA Tour win No. 2 is the last in Robert Streb’s career, he will forever have one sweet highlight to remember it by.

    Nothing came easy for the 33-year-old on Sunday at the RSM Classic. The Oklahoma native had a three-stroke lead entering the final round at Sea Island Golf Club, only to see it slip away on the back nine as a handful of players got aggressive on a scorable day at the Seaside Course. Still, a birdie on the 17th hole allowed him to get into a playoff with Kevin Kisner at 19 under.

    Streb got a bit lucky on the first playoff hole, the par-4 18th, getting up and down for par from short left of the green after hitting into a fairway bunker off the tee. Kisner then missed a 12-footer for birdie, sending them back to the 18th tee for another sudden-death hole.

    This time, both missed the fairway off the tee, Streb in the left rough, Kisner right. From 158 yards, Streb then hit a pitching wedge and did this:

    As the Golf Channel announcers would note during a few replays of this, it look like the ball rolls over the left edge of the cup, begging the question of how did it not fall in the hole.

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    Seriously, how did that not fall in?!?

    Kisner hit his approach over the green and chipped his third shot 10-feet by the hole. While he managed to make the par putt, it was academic and Streb tapped in his birdie for the victory.