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Morning 9: Switch to AimPoint sees Si Woo in the lead | ANWA, ANA latest | Great golf cliches
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By Ben Alberstadt ([email protected])
April 5, 2019 Good Friday morning, golf fans.
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1. Si Woo + AimPoint = first-round lead
Si Woo Kim rolled in five birdies in a six-hole stretch to pen with a 6-under 66 to lead at TPC San Antonio.
Adam Schupak, writing for PGATour.com, with an interesting note…”Kim ranked second in Strokes Gained: Putting of the 72 players in the morning wave and credited his 105+ feet of putts made to using the Aim Point system for reading greens. Kim said he first took a green-reading class in Palm Springs five years ago, but hadn’t used the AimPoint system in the past four years.”
2. Spieth in the mix
Golf Channel’s Will Gray on a beleaguered young Texan turning in a solid performance in Texas.
3. ANWA shaping up to be a Kupcho, Fassi duel
Golf Channel’s Brentley Romine…”Jennifer Kupcho and Maria Fassi have crossed paths many times in their decorated golf careers. But nothing should compare to what will happen Saturday, when both players will converge at the historic Augusta National Golf Club in the final pairing of the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur.”
4. Lexi stirring?
Golf Channel’s Randall Mell on Lexi Thompson bomb-and-gouging her way around Mission Hills…
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5. Meanwhile, in Jordan…
Golfweek’s Beth Ann Nichols with the report…”Meghan MacLaren held the lead at a new groundbreaking event called the Jordan Mixed Open, which features competitors from the Challenge Tour, over 50s Staysure Tour and Ladies European Tour playing for a single purse.”
“At day’s end, MacLaren’s opening 7-under 65 ended up one shot back of Challenge Tour player Daan Huizing. She was congratulated by players across all tours for the efforts. There are 40 players from each tour in the field, along with a few amateurs”
6. Fields on ANWA
Bill Fields, writing for ESPNw…”For the first time, a club once criticized for its lack of women members is conducting a tournament for elite women golfers, 72 of the best women amateurs in the world. After Thursday’s second round at Champions Retreat in nearby Evans, Georgia, the low 30 players will contest the final 18 holes at Augusta National.”
“Augusta National introduced Condoleeza Rice and Darla Moore as the club’s first female members in 2012 after more than a decade of pressure, followed by Virginia Rometty in 2014.”
“It isn’t a professional women’s event that some in recent years have urged Augusta National to institute, but it is an important development.”
7. Notable Masters rules incidents
Credit to E. Michael Johnson for this excellent assembly of notable rules infractions in Masters history…
Including, of course, this one…“Tiger Woods, 15th hole, second round, 2013…Bearing down on the lead in the 2013 Masters, Woods hit a near-perfect wedge from 85 yards. “Near” being the explanation for it striking the flagstick and ricocheting into the water fronting the green. Wanting to land his next shot a couple yards shorter, Woods went back two yards and dropped. The strategy worked as Woods knocked it stiff and made bogey-except the rules call for the drop to be made as “near as possible” to the spot from which the previous shot was struck. By his own admission in a press interview after the round, he said he dropped two yards back. After a viewer called in (it later was revealed that the caller was former PGA Tour and USGA tournament director David Eger), a series of meetings and discussions eventually resulted in Woods receiving a two-stroke penalty, but avoiding disqualification as the committee controversially invoked Rule 33-7, which gives officials leeway in deciding disqualifications.”
8. Wie opens with 74
Golf Channel’s Randall Mell…
“Michelle Wie looked as if she might be staggering to another disappointing start Thursday at the ANA Inspiration.”
“Maybe another short-lived one.”
“At 5 over through eight holes, she looked as if she were quickly playing herself out of the year’s first major championship, a development sure to ignite new questions over her surgically repaired right hand.”
“Wie rallied, though…She got herself back in this championship with a blitz of four consecutive birdies in the middle of the round to shoot 2-over-par 74.”
9. Great golf cliches
EuropeanTour.com staff doing the lord’s work with this roundup of golf cliches and their true meanings…
I’m going to take it one shot at a time
When you’ll hear it: Any time a golfer is asked to look ahead
What it really means: If I think too far forward, I’ll implode
The game is solid, I just need to put two good rounds together
When you’ll hear it: When a player is leading after 36 holes
What it really means: It will be a miracle if I ever shoot two sub-70 rounds again – can we end this thing now?
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Tour Photo Galleries
Photos from the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans
GolfWRX is live on site this week at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans for the PGA Tour’s one-and-only two-man team event.
As usual, general galleries, WITBs, and pullout albums — including some pretty spicy custom putters and headcovers — await your viewing.
Be sure to check back for more photos from the Big Easy, as we’ll continue to update this page with additional galleries throughout the week.
General Albums
- 2024 Zurich Classic – Monday #1
- 2024 Zurich Classic – Monday #2
- 2024 Zurich Classic – Tuesday #1
- 2024 Zurich Classic – Tuesday #2
WITB Albums
- Alex Fitzpatrick – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Austin Cook – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Alejandro Tosti – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Davis Riley – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- MJ Daffue – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Nate Lashley – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- James Nicholas – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Kevin Streelman – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Rasmus Hojgaard – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Tom Whitney – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- SangMoon Bae – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Daniel Berger – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Rory McIlroy – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Russ Cochrane – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Aldrich Potgieter – WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Steve Stricker WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Drew Brees WITB (Legendary New Orleans Saints QB) – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Derek Carr (New Orleans Saints QB) – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Thriston Lawrence WITB – 2024 Zurich Classic
Pullout Albums
- MJ Daffue’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Cameron putters – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Swag covers ( a few custom for Nick Hardy) – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Custom Bettinardi covers for Matt and Alex Fitzpatrick – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Doug Ghim’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Zurich Classic
- Patrick Cantlay spotted testing a Scotty Cameron blade putter – 2024 Zurich Classic
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