PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic (AP) – Tyler McCumber was the only player to succeed in a par 8 below Thursday in the Caribbean breeze until he dropped a shot into his 17th hole and dropped 4 for Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship.
Sepp Straka, the only one with 7 and under 65 who kept a blank card, joined through Hudson Swafford, who made two complicated stops at the end of his round, and Scott Harrington, who made the simplest hole of the moment at coral field in Puntacana. Resort and Club.
They were one Xinjun Zhang and Joseph Bramlett, while former Southern California star Justin Suh began her season fortunately and was among those 67.
Straka’s entrance stood out through a five- to five-foot stick for the eagle in the fourth par five hollow at the beginning of his entrance. due in the afternoon.
“This course isn’t the only one where you can push it,” Straka said. “You can do a low turn here, but it’s going to have to be a constant low turn. “
Rob Oppenheim would appreciate it. Four bass through six holes, just to make a couple of bogeys and then take a double bogey 7 in the twelfth hollow par 5. He ended up with a 72.
Nearly two-thirds of the players beat the pair.
The tournament is positioned in March against a world golf championship, postponed to Ryder Cup week due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the Ryder Cup postponed until 2021, Punta Cana is now a full-rule FedEx Cup event. The winner receives an invitation to the Masters in April.
McCumber, son of ten-time PGA Tour winner Mark McCumber, also made the eagle at number four and his birdie in the seventh par 5 took him to 8 bass, but his technique reached the next long hole along the rocks. He tried to play from there and moved it to one side, and kept the pain in a bogey by making a bogey putt from 8 feet.
Harrington never feels more at ease than at resorts along the ocean, and this is the case when he headed to a piece of his head, but towards the end of his turn, he struck an exit blow so wild that the ball thought of how lost and had to go back to the tee to play his third shot. He controlled to make bogey.
He threw a putt for birdie into the next hole, then hit his start shot 8 feet from 9 to 3, to burn the edge of the cup in his birdie attempt to finish the round.
Swafford had four birdies in five holes to start the last nine, but then it was about holding on. With a soft lie to the left of the 16th green, his shot temporarily stopped and made a couple of 12 feet for the pair. discovered a bunker before 17-3 across the Caribbean, exploded at 7 feet, and did. He ended up with a birdie to sign up for a slice of the lead.
Suh brought in last summer as a component of a forged pro-professional school class, holding a press conference at the Travelers’ Championship with Collin Morikawa, Matthew Wolff and Viktor Hovland.
Morikawa won three openings later and won the PGA Championship last month. Wolff won a week later and finished the moment Bryson DeChambeau last week standing up at the US Open. Hovland won in Puerto Rico this year.
Suh has missed nine of the 11 cuts in sponsor waivers on PGA Tour occasions since he turned professional, played well on the PGA Tour Latin America and spent August getting fake effects on a makeshift excursion for Latin American and Canadian tour players.
“They made their game from the beginning to becoming professionals,” Suh said. “Unfortunately, in the first starts I did, I injured my wrist and just had to fight. Somehow I replaced my swing a little bit, so I wouldn’t have to deal with that anymore. “
He’s healthy now. Suh played with Morikawa a few weeks ago and beat him in a friendly.
“So the game is there, ” he said. It’s a matter of organizing it in a tournament. “