It occurred during the third round. “I’m hitting the ball fantastic. I can just kind of take a swing at it and catch it solid for the most part”.
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“I’m happy to join the club that seems to be ever-growing”, said Streb, who becomes the 30th player to reach that mark. He knew how important it was that he get it right. Most of the crowd was at the par-5 closing holes at Baltusrol and it was quite entertaining. His tee shot missed, barely, and ended up in the water on the 18th, for a bogey.
Robert Streb shot a 7-under-par 63, which tied the low round ever in a major.
“It’s going to be a new experience, and it will be fun”.
The Bengaluru golfer underwent a tough year as far as his performance at the majors is concerned. “Doesn’t matter what tournament it is or where you’re at”. Twenty players were at 68 or better, a list that included defending champion Jason Day.
Walker, who opened with a 5-under 65, had three birdies in his first 12 holes without a bogey.
The 48th-ranked Walker led by as many as three strokes before finishing at No. 18 with a bogey, only his second through two rounds. He got off to a rugged start, bothered by the delay and the rain, though he settled into a rhythm and recovered for a 69 to complete 36 holes in 5-under 135.
As the US PGA Championship heads into the weekend there is an unlikely name atop the leaderboard in Robert Streb, but the 29-year-old is not getting too far ahead of himself. Day will try to join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners of the PGA Championship in stroke play. Grillo, from Argentina, knew his hard work on his putting at Baltusrol was worth the effort. This is the first time since 2010 he missed the cuts at two majors in a year. “I enjoyed the last few holes”, he said.
The Open Championship victor Henrik Stenson of Sweden shot a second consecutive 67 to claim sole fifth at 134. He was only four shots behind in his bid to match Ben Hogan as the only players to win two consecutive majors at age 40. Those thousands of fans were as stunned as they were with the way Mickelson began.
Mickelson sliced his tee shot out-of-bounds at the par-four first, his ball landing on the adjacent Shunpike Road and bouncing onto another street. Just really I played that hole so bad that it was really frustrating for me. Someone pointed out that Nicolas Colsaerts piped two over the fence and made 8.
There’s the lesson: Beware of the great player with low expectations.
Starting on the back nine, he was 2-under for his round after eight holes before he exploded for five birdies on his last 10.
American Walker bogeyed the last for a 66 and nine-under total, matched by Streb who birdied his last hole for 63. He finished tied 42nd in the Masters Championship before missing the cut at the US Open.
“I thought I needed to make four, so that’s what I was trying to do”, said McIlroy, who won the US PGA in 2012 and 2014 and had recorded three other top-eight appearances in the event.
Jordan Spieth, one of the favorites coming into the PGA Championship, shot a 4-under 32 on the back nine at Baltusrol Golf Club moving him one shot behind first-round leader Jimmy Walker.
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Asian Tour honorary member KJ Choi and Australia’s Scott Hend opened their campaigns at the US PGA Championship with matching two-under-par 68s to stay three shots back of American leader Jimmy Walker on Thursday.
