Collin Morikawa has pulled away from the field with rounds of 65 and 66 in Dublin, Ohio. Can any of Friday afternoon’s starters get close going into the weekend?
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OPELIKA, Ala. — Martin Flores, Cameron Tringale and Zac Blair shared the Barbasol Championship lead at 6-under 65 on Thursday when first-round play was suspended because of darkness. Flores and Tringale played in morning at Grand National’s Lake Course, and Blair finished his afternoon round after a rain delay of nearly two hours. Robert Allenby, Chad Campbell, Rory Sabbatini and Tag Ridings shot 66, and Richy Werenski also was 5 under with two holes left. Steven Alker was 6 under after eight holes, then bogeyed two of the next five. He was 4 under with five holes to play. Jim Furyk opened with a 69. The 47-year-old U.S. Ryder Cup captain is playing the event after failing to qualify for the British Open. Davis Love III, at 53 the oldest player in the field, had a 72 — a stroke better than son Dru Love in their third tournament together.
OLD WESTBURY, N.Y. – Breaking: Jordan Spieth is a good putter. As far as newsworthiness goes, that ranks right alongside “Dogs Bites Man� in importance, but it’s worth mentioning after Spieth’s last few rounds. At the PGA Championship, Spieth’s last start, he finished tied for 28th, with a negative strokes gained-putting average (minus-.08), and on Thursday at The Northern Trust he ranked 107th in that category, giving up 1.97 strokes to the field. To put that in context, he’s gained strokes on the field each of the past five seasons on the PGA Tour and ranked second in the category last year. On Thursday at Glen Oaks, Spieth seemed confused by the pace of the greens on his way to a 1-under 69
HOUSTON — Jason Day, eyeing his first PGA TOUR victory in more than two years, was one shot back of Sam Burns at the Vivint Houston Open on Saturday, shooting a 3-under 67 less than two weeks after withdrawing during the final round at THE CJ CUP @ SHADOW CREEK because of neck discomfort. RELATED: Final leaderboard | Johnson looking for unprecedented win The Australian was behind second-round leader Sam Burns, who began the day in the lead and ahead by two strokes. He overcame back-to-back early bogeys to salvage a 68. Burns was at 201, also one stroke ahead of Mexico's Carlos Ortiz. Ortiz, tied for second after each of the first two rounds, also put up a 67. Like Burns, he and several other contenders are chasing their first PGA TOUR title. Dustin Johnson was another two shots back after a bogey-free 66. This was his first start since the U.S. Open following a six-week break brought on by a positive test for the novel coronavirus. Johnson nearly put himself out of the tournament after opening with a 72 on the public Memorial Park course near downtown that's hosting a TOUR event for the first time since 1963. First-round leader Brandt Snedeker's third-round 76 dropped him far out of contention. Day has 12 TOUR titles — the 2015 PGA Championship among them — but none since 2018 after winning eight times over a sparkling two-year stretch in 2015-16. This summer, flummoxed by his long slump caused in part by ongoing back and neck issues, he decided to split with Colin Swatton, his coach and mentor since he was 12. Day put himself in the mix at THE CJ CUP in Las Vegas with a third-round 66 but took a triple bogey on the opening hole of the final round. Then he pulled his approach from the right rough into the water. He called it a day after hitting two shots on the second hole, the first of which he also pulled badly. Having intended to play every fall tournament to prepare for next week's delayed Masters, Day returned last week for the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD and finished in a tie for 60th-place. Austria's Shepp Straka, also chasing a breakthrough TOUR victory, was alone in fourth place at 203, a shot ahead of the fifth-place Johnson after his 66. Straka had held a share of the lead before bogeying the 17th hole. Dawie van der Walt, a South African who lives in the Houston area, briefly got to the lead at 8 under but lost three strokes to par on the back nine, falling into a sixth-place tie with Aaron Wise.
