Tiger Woods has a lot of work to do at The Open, and here is how his second round is going

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Kyle Stanley … The 32-year-old has survived only six of 16 cuts this season, but he’s 126th in the FedExCup thanks in part to a T24 two weeks ago at TPC River Highlands. For the week, he landed inside the top 20 in most measurements of his game off the tee and into greens, but that’s been his profile throughout his career. It’s paid handsomely at Muirfield Village where he has a pair of podium finishes among three top 10s, including a playoff loss just two years ago. He deserves attention again due to that success in conjunction with the familiarity of the sightlines and slower greens. Cameron Tringale … A solid first half of the Rocket Mortgage Classic triggered thoughts of the Diaper Dimension but a third-round 72 thwarted a realistic run at his first victory on the PGA TOUR. He settled for a share of 30th place. That there were signs of something special at all suggests that he’s under the influence of the imminent birth of his first child. His irons were dialed in at Detroit Golf Club. With slower greens than usual at Muirfield Village this week, piling up the scoring opportunities will be first priority. Adam Long … When 13 of 23 career cuts made result in a top 25, it’s not a reach to define him as a top-25 machine. It also means that he licks his chops on weekends. As a rookie in 2018-19, his third- and fourth-round scoring averages were lower than his averages for each of the first two rounds. This season, he’s currently 37th on TOUR in final-round scoring average, but he’s also 20th in the second round. So, the key is simply getting to the weekend, which is, well, not always that simple. However, if he strikes his irons with the precision that yielded a T24 at the Travelers Championship, you won’t be surprised. He led the field at TPC River Highlands in proximity to the hole. Henrik Norlander … Shadowed by Bryson DeChambeau’s statistically historic week at Detroit Golf Club was the Swede’s own triumvirate of pacesetting analytics. No one split more than Norlander’s 48 fairways hit, scored better in Strokes Gained: Approach (+8.29) and no one was more efficient in getting up and down for par (15 of 16). All of that outbalanced below-average putting as he manufactured a T12. He arrived at Muirfield Village with nine consecutive red numbers in tow. Richy Werenski … While he didn’t close the Rocket Mortgage Classic as well as he opened, his T21 easily was his best finish of the restart. And he’s yet to rest. In addition to three appearances on the PGA TOUR since play resumed, he stayed warm in a Korn Ferry Tour event. And he’s yet to miss a cut. He’s also been known to go on a heater. Ranked T2 in fairways hit, T8 in greens in regulation and eighth in proximity at Detroit GC to frontload his signature confident putting. NOTE: Sleeper is a relative term, so Rob uses unofficial criteria to determine who qualifies. Each of the following usually is determined to be ineligible for this weekly staple: Winners of the tournament on the current host course; winners in the same season; recent major champions; top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking; recent participants of team competitions.

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You’re standing on the 12th tee at Garzón Tajamares Golf. It’s a 10,000-acre piece of property on the Uruguayan coast, not far from the village of Garzón and the beach town of Jose Ignacio. To get there, it took a 175-kilometer drive from Montevideo, and scene is phenomenal. Surrounding you are groves of olive, almond and chestnut trees, lush green grass in front of you. The course is also home to seven tajamares, Spanish, essentially, for lakes—specifically low, topographical areas that collect and store water from rain runoff. They are blue, and crystal clear. You encounter the first tajamar on the tee shot that must travel over this body of water, and the second shot has to carry another lake, as well—whether you’re going for the green in two or not. If you decide to play it safe, your third-shot approach to the green, has to—you guessed it—go over another lake, this tajamar described as “massive,� which does adequately describe a 35-acre water expanse. Tucked in the middle of the lake is the green—an island green—that both excites and tantalizes you. You’ve never seen anything like this hole, and that’s the idea. Whether you bogey, birdied or did something else, it hardly matters since the scenery is simply breathtaking. That hasn’t changed since the course opened. How it’s presented to golfers has. In 2008, a decision was made to transform the 18 holes into a championship golf course. For this task, the club decided to hire Latin American golf legend Angel Cabrera, a three-time PGA TOUR winner who at the time was one of the world’s best players, with wins at the Masters and the U.S. Open on his resume. As a designer, Cabrera toured the property and decided he didn’t want to change the look of the course, but he did want it to more subtly fit the style of play he preferred. That meant changing some tee boxes, moving bunkers so they added challenge to the course and lengthening a hole, changing a par-3 and turning it into a drivable par-4. After the club and Cabrera finished re-designing it into a championship golf course, the other big change came when Garzón Tajamares Golf secured an affiliation with the PGA TOUR. “The main idea of the golf course and its relationship with the PGA TOUR is that we offer unique experiences to our members and their guests,� Nicolas Kovalenko, Golf and Hospitality Director of The Garzón Club added. One of those “unique� amenities is the food and wine available at the course, 500 acres of vineyards and a restaurant overseen by not only one of the most famous chefs in Latin America but in the world. Francis Mallmann, world-famous chef and restaurateur, who began his career working as a cook on a boat on Lake Nahuel Huapi in his native Argentina, is the head chef of Bodega Garzón’s restaurant, with a menu based on regional products and fish from the Atlantic Ocean offers in its main dining room a few of the town’s main square. Its wine cellars offers selections from a wide variety of grapes grown on the property. “We offer what you can’t buy anywhere else in the world,� Kovalenko continued. “With our food and wine, from Mr. Mallmann, to our golf course. This is a special place. Uruguay is a small country, but it now has a world-class golf course. I believe we have the best greens anywhere. I’ve never played better greens than these, especially when we can roll and cut them as we like. They are perfect. The course is perfect.� From the most emblematic winery of modern winemaking in Uruguay, to a world-class golf course and an extraordinary culinary experience, The Garzón Club has it all. Golf is a fundamental part of this project, and alongside the PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Latinoamérica, The Garzón Club and Garzón Tajamares Golf continue to offer one-of-a-kind experiences to their members and guests.

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