PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) Nothing should are available for a wonder with The Players Championship.
The match through which anything at all can and generally should materialize experienced it's promote connected with strange in addition to surreal in the very first circular Thursday.
Ian Poulter as well as Martin Laird were atop the leaderboard at 7-under 65. Four participants withdrew owing to injury in addition to higher scores. Sunghoon Kang popped which has a quadruple-bogey 9, followed with eagle-par-birdie and also shed four photos over the last several holes. Jerry Kelly made several birdies and also chance 82.
And first alternate Brian Harman must play as a solitary after a bizarre circumstance that could possibly have happen to be a first for the PGA Tour.
There was one touch of normalcy: Tiger Woods yet again did not split seventy within the beginning round. Woods possesses never destroyed seventy inside his fifteen years at the Players. He extended which talent which includes a slack 74 that quit him in significant peril associated with lacking the actual reduce with the next immediately week. He provides exclusively overlooked eight pieces in their career.
''It surely had not been one of the most constructive start,'' Woods said. ''Any type of impetus this I would likely build, I would likely email average joe in the foot on the incredibly up coming hole. Just one particular days.''
The conditions have been ideal for scoring for all hitting that directly and making putts.
Poulter ran down four consecutive birdies surrounding the turn and birdied that par 5s, a key pertaining to this kind of tennis course. Laird appeared to be the one gamer without a bogey with his / her card. He designed birdie with their ultimate ditch to pick up Poulter, even though his / her center had been far more with his scorecard approach leaderboard.
''I knew I hadn't made a new 5 most of day, thinking that seemed to be type of a bit goal I had,'' Laird said. ''Nothing related to getting to 7 under. It was, 'I you should not prefer to create a 5 almost all day.'''
They were a new opportunity in advance connected with Blake Adams, together with Ben Crane as well as Kevin Na another shot behind. The 11 players at 68 involved Adam Scott, Matt Kuchar, Ben Curtis as well as FedEx champion Bill Haas. There ended up 27 participants that opportunity within the 60s, and more as compared to fifty percent your discipline out of cash par.
Woods hasn't been concerning them.
''I simply did not score,'' Woods said. ''It ended up being frustrating while in the feeling in which my own very good shots ended up in awful spots, and obviously, my negative photographs ended up with even worse spots.''
World No. one particular Rory McIlroy was only two underneath pertaining to his round until finally coming up only limited on the island-green 17th and making two bottle bogey. He injure up that has a 72, while Phil Mickelson had a 71 inside his first rounded after being inducted to the World Golf Hall involving Fame. Lee Westwood possessed a 71, inflamed simply as a result of seven birdies upon his card.
They needs an improved manage along at the Stadium Course together with daybreak tee moments Friday.
Sawgrass stated its promote associated with subjects Thursday, early on and late.
The star group of the particular morning had been Woods, Rickie Fowler and Hunter Mahan. None of which appeared to be particularly impressive. Fowler, the particular winner Sunday at Quail Hollow, did not help you save par when absent greens that wiped out his / her impetus as well as chance 72, even though Mahan strike a pair of images in the waters upon his or her route to a 74.
Two-time main champ Angel Cabrera enjoyed some kind of around - at the very least for 16 holes. He resolved to go in the 11th efficient in addition to on the water, resulting to a twice bogey. And then he reached your island-green 17th, that proved to help his / her undoing. His very first result travelled into the water. Cabrera went to the drop area plus noticed two additional golf balls torpedo for the bottom of the murky pond for your 9. He trialled these two pockets in seven through as well as shot 78. He withdrew pertaining to ''personal reasons.''
Simon Dyson withdrew which includes a bad back soon after a 76. Hunter Haas merely produced this through three holes (he currently was 4-over par) when your dog halted with a bad back. Paul Casey withdrew having a shoulder pain right after a 42 on the front nine.
Harman got around after D.A. Points suddenly withdrew for the primary tee as a consequence of returning spasms. The timing was so weird this this nearly stopped Harmon from getting in that field.
Typically, your alternate may not join if they are not around. But that has been far from typical.
Points, whose back seemed to be bothering him within the range, was declared on the tee when he / she required a number of perform shifts as well as realized he couldn't produce it. Harman, who seem to ended up about the perform collection most morning, stated he identified as administrators along with informed these individuals he / she will be from the clubhouse. He had been enjoying ping pong together with his caddie after they called.
By then, it was before far too late.
Carl Pettersson possessed previously teed off. Points informed the starter they could not go, plus Robert Garrigus ended up being proclaimed and hit the following shot.
''It transpired quite quickly,'' rules public Mark Russell said. ''We failed to have time period to be able to react. But after we could take a seat down and have our own heads all over this, understand just what the specific situation is, we all made a decision Brian Harman possessed completed anything we requested the pup to be able to do.''
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