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Orlando, Fla. – After two months without competition, the PGA and Open Champion Xander Schauffele set up modest expectations on Bay Hill and scored one of his goals at Arnold Palmer invitation.
He gets two more rounds. The longest cut at the peak on the PGA tour for 20 years is still intact in 58 in a row.
But it took more work than he had. Schauffel, who opened with 77, was 3 under 10 holes through 10 holes when he ran into trouble. 11. The hole felt like “hit the face of the pan.” PAR-5 12. The holes described as “absolute disaster”.
He made double Bogee on both and was on ropes. But he found birds on a course that doesn’t give them easy, striking a wedge on 8 feet on the rear pin on the 13th, long-bearing birds, and then from a forklift to a couple-5 16. To set a bird of three times.
Bogey in the final hole gave him 71 – 12 shots behind the 36 hole of Shane Lowry – and made him sweat only short until it was clear to make a cut in the number. This signature event has a cut of 36 holes on the first 50 and connections, plus anyone within 10 shots of the leading.
“I’m trying to try really hard,” Schauffel said. “Even today he goes double-sitting in a really nice place, it was easy to frustrated. But I said earlier, I will have to go to a special place to play a decent. So I was a good practice on that front.”
Schauffele plays the first time from the guard in the capalu to start the year, taking the freedom to heal the intercostal stress and mild tears on the cartilage to the right rib. He did not expect immediate return to a large golf. He didn’t want to go on Friday either.
Austin Kaiser, his Caddy, he was just needed to take another four years to catch a record of 142 made cuts in a series Tiger Woods since February 1998. until May 2005. years.
It’s not less impressive. Streak is the sixth-longest in the history of PGA excursion behind the forest, Byron Nelson (113), Jack Nickus (105), Hale Irwin (86) and Dow Finsterwald (72).
“Austin and I are proud of our cutting down, no doubt,” Schauffel said. “Is that what we’re thinking about? No. But usually when you focus on winning, make a lot of cuts and finally somewhere in between.”
It’s not that it didn’t occur at a time.
Schauffele was on ropes on Scotland open last summer, two shots under the cut line until they earn five birds in the last 11 holes.
Kaiser mentioned the incision on the leaf of his head of the day before, so Schauffel was well aware. That day was not a panic in him in Scotland open, the sign of confidence he had his game. Schauffele would find himself to win an open next week.
“I would missed this cut a few years ago,” he said last summer. He spoke that day when he didn’t have to be convinced he would be calm when it was bad.
So it looked on Friday at Hill in Bay. He withdrew a Liking Bunker shot in water 11., which led to double Bogey. He was in a good position just right of 12. Green when he uttered the green, left the chip short and took the double Bogee.
And then the impressive answer came.
“I had to dig deep deeply,” Schauffel said. “I heard a bird – someone burried the next hole in front of me, Shane or Rory (McIlroy), and then someone birds a couple. And I just told myself:” If I can, so I can. “”
