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Na cards a 16 at Texas Open

SAN ANTONIO — Kevin Na watched his first shot on No. 9 veer badly off course. His next stroke wasn’t any better. Or the next one. Or the 11 after that.

Or maybe it was 12. Thirteen? Na himself couldn’t keep track.

“I got done with the hole and I said [to my caddie], ‘I think I made somewhere between a 10 and a 15,’ ” Na said. “But I think it’s close to a 15.”

Try 16.

J.J. Henry and former British Open champion Stewart Cink shot 5-under 67s to begin the Texas Open atop the leaderboard, but the spotlight belonged to Na, whose meltdown on the par-4 ninth ranked among the most dreadful in PGA Tour history.

Despite the 16, Na wound up signing for an 8-over 80.

The worst single-hole score at a PGA Tour event belongs to John Daly, who had an 18 on the par-5 sixth hole at Bay Hill in 1998. Ray Ainsley took 19 shots on the par-4 16th hole at Cherry Hills in the 1938 U.S. Open.