“Back inside the ropes today, he opened bogey-bogey-par-bogey and added two more bogeys on his inward side, but lassoed five birdies on his last 10 to draw even. Marino went just 2-for-7 in scrambling en route to the squares, but he averted another at the par-3 11th hole where he scrambled for par with a conversion from 35’9”.
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Rory McIlroy feels he is in a strong position, following his first round 68 at the Frys.com Open at Silverado in Napa.
“I want to have chances to win golf tournaments, that’s really my focus until the end of the year”. Steele finished the back nine with five straight birdies, cooled slightly, and picked up two birdies on the front for a 63.
Brendan Steele had an ideal start to the new PGA Tour season. That said, if Round 1 was any indication, it might be a who’s who of “Who’s that?” taking down McIlroy and Rose come Sunday.
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“I think if I keep having those putts, eventually they’re going to go in”, Watney said.
After both carded solid opening rounds, there’s hope that they’ll be pushing the top of the leaderboard for the next three. The biggest difference he noticed about the big leagues was the crowd – not much by PGA Tour standards, but certainly a lot more than he saw on the Web.com Tour previous year. While a tournament in wine country doesn’t attract a massive crowd, it was still far more than he was used to seeing.
After he opened with 4-under 68 Thursday, he said, “Trying to find a balance between not feeling too hung over when you tee it up'”. So it’s good. Different experience. “Like even here. OK, there are guys [four] coming from Korea from the Presidents Cup so I shouldn’t be complaining, but the 12-hour flight to get here landed [Tuesday] at 3 p.m. You struggle with jet leg a little bit”.
VILAMOURA, Portugal – Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium shot a 7-under-par 64 to claim a share of the lead after the first round of the Portugal Masters in Vilamoura on Thursday.
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Just behind the lead pair are Belgium’s Thomas Pieters, David Drysdale of Scotland, Eduardo de la Riva of Spain and Thomas Aiken of South Africa, all on six under par 65.
