PGA Tour winner reacts to carding disastrous septuple bogey 12 at Travelers Championship

J.T. Poston has explained what was going through his mind as he made a rare septuple bogey during the final round of the Travelers Championship. 

Poston, who won the Memorial Tournament earlier in the month to clinch the biggest victory of his career, entered the lone par-five 13th at TPC River Highlands with his score on three-under. 

He found the fairway off the tee, but his approach finished in the greenside bunker right of the putting surface.

Poston splashed out but caught it a little heavy and was still chipping from the apron. 

Then it got a whole lot worse and the postman delivered a moment he will want to forget quickly. 

From 59 feet, Poston hit what he thought was a good chip but his ball trickled off the green into the water, necessitating a penalty drop. 

Using a sand wedge for his sixth shot, Poston's ball came up short and found another watery grave, prompting Poston to lose his cool and smash his club into the turf.

Then the same thing happened again. 

Poston finally took his medicine with his 10th shot and ended up 13 feet passed the hole. 

He missed that but tapped in an eight-inch putt for a rare septuple bogey 12. 

Poston then dropped two more shots on the next hole and finished the final signature event of the season 69th in the 72-man field. 

Still, credit is due to Poston, who told Golfweek exactly what was going through his mind. 

"First off, just hitting in that bunker is the last place we should have been," Poston told the publication.

"It just ended up against the back of the lip (of the bunker) and I didn't have much of a shot. 

"I knew if I flew the bunker shot on the green, it was gonna go in the water based on where it was."

Asked why he didn't consider putting it, he added: ""I feel like it's just going to hop and that takes all the speed out of it. 

"And you've got this big false front you got to get it over.

"So my worry with trying to putt it was it would not have enough speed to get. really get there. 

"Yeah, I mean, obviously, in hindsight, I would have just hit to 12 feet and make by seven, but it's one of those where, like, you feel like you can hit the shot, and so you try and execute it. 

"I mean, we were in 40th place!"