Seamus Energy known as a untimely finish to 2024 when he withdrew from The RSM Traditional in Georgia with a again damage.
The West Waterford man tweaked his again in a gap 4 over 76 on the Plantation Course at Sea Island, however struggling together with his lengthy golf equipment, he determined discretion was the higher a part of valour simply 4 holes into his second spherical.
Beginning on the again 9 on the Seaside Course, he made up for a bogey on the eleventh by brushing in a 60-footer for a birdie two on the twelfth.
However he discovered he was struggling to show and withdrew after he discovered water twice on the thirteenth and made a quadruple bogey eight that left him close to the again of the sphere on eight-over-par.
Event host Davis Love III (60) additionally withdrew through the second spherical with a wrist damage as he adopted a gap 82 with an eight over entrance 9.
Energy went into the occasion ranked fifty fifth within the FedExCup Fall standings and seems protected in his bid to complete the yr within the 51st-Sixtieth band, clinching Signature Occasion begins within the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am and The Genesis Invitational.
On the prime of the leaderboard, Utah’s Patrick Fishburn (32) shot an eight-under 64 on the Plantation structure to guide by a shot from Maverick McNealy and Lee Hodges on 11-under-par.
Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg additionally loved an excellent day, following a gap 73 with an eight-under 64 on the Plantation Course to make the lower in his first begin again since present process knee surgical procedure.
The European Ryder Cup star was 4 beneath after ten holes earlier than ending birdie, birdie, eagle, par to maneuver as much as joint seventeenth on five-under.
“Yeah, very totally different,” Aberg mentioned. “It was slightly bit simpler right now, it felt like. However no, it was good. I felt like despite the fact that yesterday the rating wasn’t excellent, I nonetheless felt like there was some good issues in there.
“So I saved holding onto that final evening and this morning and got here out right now and performed rather a lot higher golf.”
On the LPGA Tour’s season-ending CME Group Tour Championship, Leona Maguire fell again as world primary Nelly Korda raced into competition within the battle for the most important first prize within the historical past of ladies’s golf.
Tied for forty fourth after a gap 72, the US star fired a six-under 66 to maneuver as much as joint fourth on six-under as she seeks her eighth win of a outstanding season and a historic $4 million payday.
“I simply hit it slightly higher,” mentioned Korda, who holed an eight iron for an eagle two on the third and added 4 birdies in a bogey-free effort to share fourth with Jeeno Thitikul, Ruoning Yin, Amy Yang and Ayaka Furue on six-under.
“Made a couple of extra putts. I went to the vary for in all probability half-hour after my spherical and tried to discover a totally different really feel than what I had yesterday.”
She’s 5 pictures behind Angel Yin, who carded a 69 to guide by two pictures from Korean duo Hye-Jin Choi and Narin An on 10-under.
It was a far more durable day for Cavan star Maguire, who was seventeenth in a single day after a positive 69.
The Ballyconnell native struggled to hit greens and made 4 birdies, six bogeys and a double bogey in a rollercoaster 76 to fall to 52nd within the 60-strong subject on one-over-par.
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