Shane Lowry might be trying to get off to a quick begin within the second spherical of the Vacationers Championship after Scottie Scheffler and Matt Fitzpatrick roared into rivalry final evening.
World primary Scheffler and the in-form Fitzpatrick carded six-under-par rounds of 64 to lurk only one stroke behind chief Eric Cole, tied for second with Nico Echavarria, Ben Griffin, Kristoffer Reitan and Bud Cauley.
Lowry’s two-under 68 left him tied for thirty second and Scheffler was happy to begin properly in an occasion the place catching up is usually a problem when scoring is low.
“When the scoring is decrease, it may be tougher and tougher to play catch-up,” Scheffler mentioned after his bogey-free effort.
“I really feel like once you play a golf course the place even par’s going to be the successful rating on the finish of the week, there’s all the time these days the place any person figures it out.
“While you take a look at the low rounds from final week’s US Open, there are nonetheless just a few of ’em, or at the very least one man appears to determine it out every day, so you are feeling like you possibly can catch up just a little bit simpler.
“Typically right here you get to date behind, you possibly can solely shoot so low on a few of these golf programs, so it is vital to maintain tempo.”
Catching up can also be the aim for Leona Maguire when she tees off within the second spherical of the KPMG Girls’s PGA at Hazeltine this afternoon.
The Co Cavan battler made three bogeys in a row from the eleventh to be three-over via 4 holes and dropped one other shot at her 10 gap.
She dug deep and birdied the quick eighth from 25 ft to card a three-over 75 that leaves her at risk of lacking her third Main reduce from three begins this 12 months.
After taking 34 putts, she’s tied for 109th, two photographs exterior the projected reduce mark for the highest 70 and ties.
Lauren Walsh’s one-over 73 left her tied for seventieth with the likes of Charley Hull, ten photographs behind chief Ina Yoon.
The South Korean fired a championship record-equalling, nine-under 63 to guide by two photographs from American Karis Davidson and by 4 from Alexa Pano and A Lim Kim.
World primary Nelly Korda, who’s bidding to win her third Main in a row, was pleased with a 70 and joint nineteenth regardless of making a double bogey on the powerful sixteenth.
“Yeah, it was strong,” she mentioned. “Actually, simply made one dangerous swing, which ended up in a double. However total, fairly pleased with my day.”
It was a troublesome day for Stephanie Meadow, who was propping up the 156-strong subject after an 82.
