Aussie golfer Cam Davis has gone desperately near recording an extremely uncommon feat, not achieved on the PGA Tour in 25 years.
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Davis is teeing it up on the WM Phoenix Open this week and after posting -2 throughout the primary two rounds, the Australian will see the weekend after making the reduce.
Nonetheless, it may have been so a lot better had {the golfing} gods been somewhat kinder to Davis on the seventeenth gap.
A brief par 4, Davis went proper on the inexperienced together with his driver, touchdown his ball on the entrance of the inexperienced earlier than watching it trickle narrowly previous the outlet.
Davis was left with a small, 4 foot putt for eagle which he slotted.
Had the tee shot gone in, Davis would have been celebrating the primary gap in a single on a par 4 on the PGA Tour in 25 years.
“That is aggressive over there … that is improbable,” commentator Taylor Zarzour stated.
“We’ve got not had an ace on a Par 4 since Andrew McGee did it a long time in the past on the PGA Tour – and that’s about as shut we’ve seen for eagle.”
PGA winner Robert Damron added: “Even par, what a good time to drag off a shot like that.”
Remarkably, it was on the very same gap again in 2001 when American Andrew Magee achieved the feat – the one occasion a golfer has marked ‘1’ on a par 4 in tour historical past.
Davis will characteristic in Rounds 3 and 4 of the Phoenix Open however at -2, he’s 9 photographs behind the chief Ryo Hisatsune and needing a minor miracle to win.
Hisatsune rode a back-nine binge to an eight-under par 63 and a one-shot lead over fellow Japanese Hideki Matsuyama.
Hisatsune, a 23-year-old chasing his first PGA Tour title, picked up six strokes within the house of 5 holes on the again 9 at TPC Scottsdale constructing an 11-under par whole of 131.
Matsuyama, who gained back-to-back Phoenix Open titles in 2016 and 2017, teed off on 10 and surged up the leaderboard with six straight birdies from the thirteenth via the 18th.
He admitted that the massive crowds could make for a nervy expertise however Matsuyama, who has 5 top-five finishes and 5 top-10s in Phoenix, stated he loves the environment.
“The vitality that’s on the market, so many followers cheering you on,” he stated. “You hit a nasty shot, they’ll boo you and there’s some strain, however I adore it.”
Min Woo Lee is one of the best positioned Australian via two rounds. Lee carded a powerful -6 par 65 within the second spherical to be -6 for the event and 5 photographs off the lead.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler bounced again from a uncharacteristic over-par opening spherical.
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In peril of lacking the midway reduce after a first-round 73, Scheffler bounced again with six birdies in a six-under 65 and at four-under made the reduce with three strokes to spare.
Scheffler has now made 66 consecutive cuts, the longest energetic streak on the tour.
Scheffler, seven again going into the weekend, gained the 2022 Phoenix Open after trailing by 9 on the midway stage.
5-time major-winner Brooks Koepka missed the reduce in his second event since returning to the PGA Tour from the breakaway LIV Golf league.
Koepka adopted a gap 75 with a two-under 69 and at two-over par missed the reduce that fell at one-under.
— with AFP
LEADERBOARD – ROUND 2
Ryo Hisatsune -11
Hideki Matsuyama -10
Chris Gotterup -8
Pierceson Coody -8
Akshay Bhatia -7
Si Woo Kim -7
John Parry -7
Sahith Theegala -7
Matt Fitzpatrick -7
***
MW Lee (AUS) -6
Scottie Scheffler -4
Cam Davis (AUS) -2
Missed Lower
Okay. Vilips (AUS) +1