“I didn’t work as hard”, the tournament rookie said Wednesday during a press event in Benton Harbor. “Today, I wanted to see what I had and I had it. It’s going to be a tough day and it’s going to be a fun day”. “It’s nervy. It’s cool”.
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Mediate finished at 19-under 265 to break the tournament record of 268 set by Sam Snead in 1973 at PGA National.
“I love it. This place, it’s just evil. But it was fine”, Mediate said.
Montgomerie shaved the hole with a birdie attempt at the 13th, where Mediate’s par putt just caught the edge of the hole. “I didn’t even know I shot 66, I didn’t know what the hell I shot today”. “I always remember the stuff these guys did for me when I first came out here – not only good, but when I did bad, they made sure to tell me I did bad”.
“That fourth, fifth, sixth week”, he said, “I think some good things can really happen where I can feel confident enough to maybe having a shot at winning one”. “I hit a lot of solid irons”.
Mediate has one-putted 22 of his 36 holes, finishing with 22 putts Thursday and 26 on Friday. “It was nice”, Sauers said. It sounds weird.But that’s how I try to do it when I get with the best players, and those are two of the best players by far.
But this week, Daly is going in a different direction at the Senior PGA Championship, mostly thanks to his disastrous 16th hole during Thursday’s first round. He hit it close and made a lot of putts. I was a little bit flat. “But I’m feeling really good about the way I’m hitting the ball”.
Bernhard Langer, fresh off the 100th victory of his career – at a major, no less, at the Regions Tradition in Alabama, opened with a 69. Nicklaus had largely retired when the Senior British Open was added to the major rotation. Mediate played just four holes two years ago before a hip injury forced him to withdraw.
Montgomerie had a 68. Jessica Korda (72) and Canada’s Brooke Henderson (68) tied for third at 9 under. The 52-year-old Scot won in 2014 at Harbor Shores and last year at French Lick in Indiana.
“Straight down wind”, Perry said. I’m glad I put up a fearless defence, that’s all one can do. “So it was pretty neat to make your first albatross at the Senior PGA”. A PGA assistant professional at Brickyard Crossing in IN, he won the Senior PGA Professional Championship in October.
Roth was one of Michigan’s top pros for decades before taking over at San Juan Country Club in 2010.
Tom Lehman, Kirk Triplett and Brandt Jobe were 10 under, all shooting 69. Roth is the PGA director of golf at San Juan Country Club in Farmington, New Mexico.
John Daly struggled to a 75 in his second senior major start. At 12-under 198, he was one stroke ahead of Colonial member Ryan Palmer and Webb Simpson.
The second-ranked Spieth was alone in the lead after three birdies and a huge par save in a four-hole stretch in the middle of his round. Reed had 10 holes left. He has a PGA Tour-high eight top-10 finishes this season. When the first groups teed off early in the afternoon, the sky was clearing and became bright and sunny.
Play was stopped at 8:21 p.m. time with 61 of the 121 players still on the course. And Perry had five birdies and an eagle before bogeying No. 17.
Christina Kim was second after a 71.
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South Korea’s Y.E. Yang, Australia’s Scott Hend and the Dutchman Joost Luiten shared the lead in ideal conditions at the tour’s headquarters at Wentworth.
