Starting Thursday, the Honda Classic will be underway from PGA National for the tenth straight year.
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Of course, if he doesn’t, all he has to do is look at the first three players who held the No. 1 ranking since he gave it up – Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, Jordan Spieth and Jason Day of Australia – all in their 20s. The wind never really materialized.
But he was at his best on the par 5s.
Germany’s Martin Kaymer is in a group two behind Hatton. His partner Anirban Lahiri hit his drive 316 yards, and Fowler was eons ahead of him. “But I’m going to stick to the same game plan”. When you stand on the first tee, you don’t feel like you need to make five or six birdies. There’s so much mud on the fairways, you don’t want to get penalized for that. Fowler missed seven greens and saved par each time.
“She’s five radiations away from being done with all that”, Palmer, who took four months off a year ago to be with his wife and their two kids, told Golf Digest.
Rickie Fowler has talked this week about closing out tournaments.
Spaniard Sergio Garcia shot up the leaderboard early with a four-under 66 to get back to five under.
Defending champion and former world number one Adam Scott also posted a 68 with two birdies in his last four holes.
“I feel like it’s time for me to start finishing off some more events when I am in this position, ” Fowler said before Saturday’s round.
Three-time PGA Tour victor Palmer is looking for his first tour victory in seven years. “A win would be nice”. I think it’s good for the guys at the top; they are highly motivated. The situation I’m in, I have to be aggressive, but I’ve got to be careful.
He worked with Dave Stockton and his son on putting during the three days leading to the Genesis Open at Riviera, opened with a 68 and saw good results, even though he tied for 49th. I really like this warm weather.
Gribble already has won this season at the Sanderson Farms Championship last fall while the top players were in Shanghai. “I hit it ideal, and it was just waiting for it to land and see where it hit”.
Bryan pulled into a tie for the lead with a birdie on No. 18. He at least had another round to settle himself, and he was all too relieved to stay dry in the final round for a one-shot victory.
And it helped to be on familiar turf. I just wanted to play and enjoy that feeling, knowing that I was the No. 1 golfer in the world, and it only lasted about seven or eight weeks.
The American went into the weekend’s action one-shot off the lead, but he racked up five birdies to move onto 13-under-par for the tournament. He was asked that day about the talent gap between the Web.com Tour and the PGA Tour.
If he can close it out Sunday, it would be Fowler’s fourth career PGA Tour career.
Fowler said his ball striking wasn’t as sharp Saturday, but he’s been in control the whole week. “Last year, I played poorly in the majors, which was disappointing”.
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“So there can be a big swing there, and I think the biggest goal there tomorrow is if I can hit all three greens in regulation”.
