Sentence examples for spike mark from inspiring English sources

But it hit a spike mark in the dirt and shot high over Rodriguez's reach.

He hit it perfectly, only to watch in dismay as it hit a spike mark.

Hal Sutton missed a 4-foot par putt on the first hole yesterday when his ball hit a spike mark.

Dyson, who illegally flattened a spike mark in the line of a putt during the BMW Masters, was punished while being cleared of a "premeditated act of cheating".

"I was trying to decide, first of all, which side of the spike mark am I going to try to put it on," Woods said.

His 18-foot attempt for birdie at the 18th to get to 10 under appeared to hit a spike mark and missed on the high side, ending his charge.

Dyson was handed a fine and a suspended two-month ban by the tour after tapping down a spike mark on a green at the BMW Masters in October.

"I guess I hit it as good as I could have without it going in," said Appleby, adding he did not notice if the ball had hit a spike mark.

Curtis saw his birdie putt at 15 hit a spike mark and bobble right - but he recovered from a wayward drive off 16 wide to stay in touch with a par at two under.

Coincidentally, England's Simon Dyson has returned to action in Abu Dhabi for the first time since being handed a suspended two-month ban from the European Tour for tapping down a spike mark.

Footage showed the Spaniard tapping down something on the line of his putt on the 18th green, which would have been in breach of the rules if it was a spike mark.