Day is second in the FedEx Cup standings and tees off with Spieth and Bubba Watson. But it’s already been memorable. Nicklaus again in 1975, when he came up one shot short of the Tom Watson-Jack Newton playoff that resulted in the first of Watson’s five Open Championship wins. Day, battling back issues, shot a 2-under 68.
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Spieth has to at least make the cut to remain No. 1. Just a few months ago, he won his first major championship – the 2015 Masters – which kicked off Spieth’s journey to the top spot in the world. He finished with a 74.
“There were a couple of swings out there that hurt”, said Day, who nevertheless had three birdies and one bogey in his two-under effort. “And it just came out of nowhere”.
“I’d be somebody who would go jump out of an airplane because it would get your heart rate running”. They don’t really crown the top player for the entire year, given the way the points system is structured.
Brandt Snedeker’s 2012 season was hindered by a rib injury that cost him a U.S. Open start, but he had lots of time off, got healthy late and returned, refreshed, to finish second and sixth in the first two legs before winning the finale.
Danny Lee says his confidence has continued to grow following his win at the Greenbrier Classic and believes he has what it takes to win the Fedex Cup.
Six years later, Spieth is back in New Jersey with a green jacket and the No. 1 world ranking.
“Typically when I hit the fairways, I’m not over par”.
Watson didn’t arrive at Plainfield with high expectations.
Past year: Michigan Jung Hur shot 64-70-67-66 for a tournament-record 21-under 267 total. “I said, ‘The end is in sight.’ And 30 seconds later, they blew the horn”.
That proved to be his first of two stretches of three straight birdies. That put him atop the leaderboard with Camilo Villegas, Tony Finau and Spencer Levin.
“We were just shaking our heads”, said Scott Paris, Plainfield’s director of golf.
Watson admitted that he’s not comfortable around Plainfield because there’s so many blind shots. “It’s hard for me”. There’s a reason I have a receding hairline, and it’s because I’ve got those, that kind of pressure building up and that kind of stress.
That’s because of the weird equation at the OWGR, meaning he could lose his top spot if he doesn’t finish inside the top 14 at upcoming The Barclays tournament. Day asked as he gave the wide-eyed youngster his wedge. He felt the twinge removing a light box from under his motor home, and chose to have the MRI on Wednesday. Spieth then took a double-bogey on the par-3 third after hitting his tee shot into a pond. The same exact thing happened on No. 16. “I’m doing everything I can to try and relax the spasms that I have”, he said after shooting 2-under.
“Yeah, I guess start to recognize the position I’m in now, and with that, it’s a responsibility”, the 22-year-old said. “Boy, hot little round there”.
Mickelson made three bogeys on his final nine, the front nine, and only one birdie to post a 2-over 36.
“After playing seven holes today, it became evident that he needed to leave the course and get as much rest as possible before tomorrow’s opening round”, the spokesman said, reports Reuters.
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“I would certainly set it as something I want to achieve more so than just any regular event, definitely”.
