Flouttown, PA. – PGA Tour is visiting Philadelphia Cricket Club for the first time, and after a very low score on Thursday, the course has cut back.
The low scoring of the minimum air and soft Greens Trust Championships in the club’s immersion course was designed for the first round, when Keith Mitchell fired 9-under 61 to take an early lead. The ground was played on Friday through rain, which made the track felt longer than 7,119 yards.
On Saturday, a combination of large gust and sharp greens presented a twist to the area in the $ 20 million signature program – and short missed put day was the subject.
Mitchell said, “Greens was a different speed compared to nowadays. They were very fast.” “The winds and dry air made them very fast. So there were speed adjustments at a couple hole 3 and 4.”
The third and fourth holes were three-foot bogies for Mitchell, who had a day to forget the N route for 1-over 71. He excluded the sev equal to 3-foot in Par-3 eighth place before the last meltdown on the 14th, 14th.
Mitchell took off his tea shot for 5 feet pin, tried his shirt right behind the cup and still could not correct it on 3-foot for equal.
There are still 70 players after two withdrawals on Saturday, and Michel is ranked 70th per green in Regulation (2.07).
But others also struggled. Rory McLaroy took a 90 degree left turn on the lip n route for a double bogie at number 7 at number 7. Lori saw the 7-foot Birdi at number 8 lip out hard. And Straka’s only bogey of the day came on a lip-out in the 12th hole.
“It was very difficult today in those winds, especially hard to hole,” Lori said. “When you reach within 10 feet, it was really difficult to be accurate on these greens.”
Lori agreed with playing with the assessment of green motion partner Mitchell.
“They were very fast today, especially towards the end. “First a few days, I felt as if they were quite slow.”
This is not to say that the players were suddenly catching about the difficulty. Philadelphia Cricket Club has positively designed to review the whole week, as players look at their approval of the Northeast Track of an old school, of which they no longer play regularly on the tour.
“I played with Harry English today, and (Max) Homa yesterday,” Tony Finau said. “We were talking about it, in the radius of 100 to 150 miles of this place, I think there is some best golf in the world. I would prefer to see the tour a lot more here. It’s definitely a good.”
-Adam Zillonka, Field Level Media
