PGA Tour Golf: Scottie Scheffler starts in a mixed state while Wyndham Clark catches the early lead on the WM Phoenix Open | Golf news
Former main champion Wyndham Clark grabbed the early lead at PGA Tour’s WM Phoenix Open, as Scottie Scheffler World 1 1 Scottie Scheffler bounced off the slow start in Arizona.
Clark released seven birds in 64 64 64 on TPC Scottsdale, his lowest round of opening on the PGA tour of his 2023 success, to move one in front of the compatriot Lee Hodges and Taylor Moore.
World no. 7, who missed the incision at American Express and fought in last week’s defense of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM, in the first one came into an eight-foot bird and began a ride of four consecutive birds by walking 15 feet on the eighth.
Clark also blocked the pairs on the back and recovered from finding water from teenagers in the drive Par-Citiri 17. To save the couple, with a closing couple, leaving it seven below and holding the lead from the first time since the players last March.
“You can’t necessarily control the result and what happens to your golf ball, but you can control your thoughts,” Clark said. “It was a good reminder to come back, hey, when I play the best, I look at the glass more full than I’m half empty.”
Hodges recovered from two Bogey in his first four holes to a ticket of two eagles and four birds in his introductory circle 66, with Moore – also starting on the back nine – briefly before he dropped an even second when he scored the fourth and finished five consecutive couple.
Justin Thomas is in a six -player group sitting two shots containing European Player Ryder Cup Nicolai Hojgaard, while Thomas Detry was within three leaderships with one hole until finished when the game was suspended in 18.13 by local time because of darkness.
Robert Macintyre and former world no. 1 Jordan Spieth, tickets three-tested 68, because the favorite before the Scheffler tournament recovered from an unpleasant opening to save 69 in the opening.
Scheffler dropped a shot in the first, triple steam in a third a third and a bunker shot on his way to Rogac in the fifth pair-four, before canceling the bird in the sixth ejecting shooting on the ninth.
Double Champion Phoenix Open was discharged from Fairway bunker to the eagle in the pars of tens, but twice swallowed the deck, 12. After hitting his T-shirt in the water, leaving him two for his circle with six to play for playing for playing.
Scheffler stunned the par-hopes and overturned in an eight-foot eagle in the Part 15. To get back under the couple and the ruling champion Masters, then climbed to Birdie in the first place.
There were nine players who could not finish their circle before the game was suspended, and the first round continued on Friday at 8.15am in local time (15.15 hours in the UK). The second round will start as scheduled at 7.20am (2.20am in the UK).
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