After teeing off on the 10th, Jones mixed five birdies with two bogeys in a light breeze that is expected to pick up later on Friday. The highs were about 95 Fahrenheit.
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“We were falling behind”, Spieth said. Today it started at east-south-east and then it worked its way to east-north-east and you’re trying to figure out when that’s actually happening.
Main storyline going into Sunday: Can defending champion Spieth, who closed with a 63 a year ago to win going away, make it a Down Under double?
“I’d say more so the local knowledge would come with the wind and understanding how heavy it can be from certain areas”.
“Conditions were definitely a lot tougher yesterday”, Colsaerts said. He was tied for second with Taiwan’s Yu Chun-an.
Adam Scott played in the afternoon. He held the top ranking for 11 weeks until August of past year, and entered the Australian Open this week ranked No. 12.
He is an extreme talent which is only now beginning to be realised with some good during the Web.Com Tour finals including a 4th place finish at the Web.Com Tour Championship leading to a PGA Tour card.
“Not really, I could have given him one though… getting wet on the 14th”, he said, referring to his club selection on the hole, obviously suggested by Williams. “It’ll be fun to be out there on the weekend with a lot of friends and family and members from this course out there”.
There was bad news for Steven Bowditch, though, with the Australian missing the cut after a five-over 76 left him languishing down on +9.
“But you’ve still got to get it in the hole”, he said. “There’s no evidence that anyone else has walked on them”.
“It’s a shame about the last hole”.
“I just misjudged the pace of the greens for most of the day”, Scott added.
It helped Spieth glide his way to an eventual round of 67, or four under par for a seven under par total.
Only about 10 players hit the green through the first half of the field.
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He made another sloppy bogey on the sixth as his woes continued. You can just look at the stats, I was so far down the putting that it doesn’t matter how good you hit it, you’re going to struggle to beat guys like Jason, Jordan and Rory when they’re not putting that badly or hitting it that badly. Darren Clarke posted a 75 and Peter Senior a dismal nine-over 80.
