Rickie Fowler, Rory McIlroy, and Hideki Matsuyama had something very interesting happen to them during the first round of the Wells Fargo Championship.
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Roberto Castro bogeyed the final hole to fall from a tie for the lead and will enter the final round alone in second, one stroke behind Fowler.
Playing on the tough Red Course at Royal golf Dar Es Salam, the 25-year-old went into day two with a share of the lead at four under after an opening 68. A year ago as well, I had a 14-under weekend.
Chesson Hadley was two shots back on six-under-par, and Wheatcroft joined Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler, Daniel Berger and Brian Harman in a group on five-under.
A few minutes after Tate Martell from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas tweeted Wednesday night he was reopening his recruitment, Moorhead posted “I feel sorry for ppl who never understand loyalty”.
“So random”, Fowler told the Associated Press after the flying orb almost hit him as he was preparing to hit his tee shot. “You know, it was I would say before maybe not the complete belief or knowledge of knowing what to do and how to win to get the job done, but now it’s fun to go out there and go take care of business”.
Birdies on the long fifth and the par-four eighth, where he pitched to tap-in distance from 52 yards, suggested Lowry was in scoring mode, but a bogey five on the ninth brought him to the turn in level-par 36.
“I’m just brushing them off because those two insane rounds that I had happened to follow my two best warm-up sessions of the year, ” he said. “But I think I’ll get that turned around here for the weekend”.
He was disqualified for violating rule 4-3b, which states: “If, during a stipulate round, a player’s club is damaged other than in the normal course of play rendering it non-conforming or changing its playing characteristics, the club subsequently must not be used or replaced during the round”. “Charlotte’s finest (police) sorted it out and got him off the property, thankfully”, said the four-time major victor. Still a good finish will ensure staying inside Top-60 to play the US Open next month. Fowler is two clear of former Riviera victor James Hahn and 2013 U.S. Open champion Justin Rose. After scrambling for par 13 of the 16 times he missed the green in the first two rounds, he salvaged par just twice Friday on the six holes he missed the green. McIlroy, the only two-time victor of the tournament, shot a 73 after a bogey-plagued start to his title defense.
Minjee Lee, Morgan Pressel and Ryann O’Toole were tied for second.
LPGA – So Yeon Ryu birdied five of her last eight holes for a bogey-free 7-under 65 and a two-stroke lead in the Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic at Prattville, Ala.
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Journeyman pro Andrew Loupe, who was joint overnight leader with Steve Wheatcroft, shot 71 to set the early clubhouse lead at eight-under.
