Koepka tried and failed to hit shot from knees

Poor Brooks Koepka.

What the heck do you do when your ball drops into one of those deep British Open sand traps … but there's no room for you to hit it since it's near the left lip and deep in the pot bunker?

If you're Koepka, you do the only thing you can: You try hitting it from your knees. And then when that shot rolls back into the bunker, you try hitting it over the giant front lip and … yikes.

Watch what unfolded for the two-time U.S. Open champ on No. 8:

He ended up with a double-bogey. "Dear oh dear" indeed.

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