Xander Schauffele stood with great pressure on his shoulders in the middle of the 9th exhibition. Even the world sitting in paral 2, the world number 2, a Saturday Tee time and consistently 59 consecutive cut cuts were needed to make the last hole of the day to 59 more effective.
After watching the playing partners, Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, McIlroy, McIlroy, McIlroy trees and Schefler, who disappeared to the right of the green, finally became Schauffele’s turn. It was necessary to end around the green in the Par-5 and then falling below 1 to Birdie.
“I thought about a line exactly,” said Schauffele.
“I found out to have to make Birdie.”
After Schauffele, the best shot of the day, not a high level of high level. His ball descended the hole located 50 feet away from the pot of the green. From there, he placed two quietly for the Birdie, which should earn a Saturday Tee time in Tee 1 cedar and Saturday.
“(The wind) helped the right from chance to the right, so he could have a hair-directed hybrid, but if I could hit a hair down,” said Schauffele.
“Fortunately, I hit the green.”
Outside the clutch strikes, twice a big winner, a year ago, the PGA Championship and Claret Jug looked at anywhere next to the player. This season has previously missed a rib injury this season and returned to the competition in Arnold Palmer’s invitation last week.
He called his performance so far “really bad” that “everything” was bad. The statistics also reflect it. Schauffele lost 1,374 strokes when approaching and only seven birds from 36 holes.
“To cut the chips, cut the chips, the missing of each exhibition, to hit the exhibitions in the missing green,” Schauffele explained.
“It’s pretty rude to be completely honest. So if I can eke this cut, it would be nice. But the game feels pretty bad.”
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