Twofer Tuesday visits the Land of the Rising Sun for the inaugural Zozo Championship.
The Zozo is being held on the Narashino County Club inside the Chiba Prefecture east of Tokyo, of which maximum folks were given our first appearance all through Monday's Skins Game. The sponsor, ZOZOTOWN Apparel, has signed on for at least six years so I suspect we'll all get used to seeing this stunning route. What stood out to me all through the Skins Game was the double vegetables, and I'm hectic to look how they come to be affecting play.
PGATOUR.Com's summary had a few thrilling records approximately those double veggies, so I'm including it right here:
Narashino CC is a 36-hole facility. A composite path has been routed for the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP. It's a par 34-36?70 stretching 7,041 yards. The five par 3s variety from the 141-yard thirteenth to the 191-yard fifth. The longest of the trio of par 5s is the 608-yard 14th. The closing hole is a par five tipping at 562 yards, so the opportunity for stroll-off heroics is in play.
Golf guides of some age in Japan were built with two vegetables on every hole. At the time, it become a solution to offer distinctive lines of healthful grass regardless of the season. Today, bentgrass blankets most greens usually due to the fact advances in agronomy have allowed for stepped forward conditioning where feasible year-round.
Narashino opened in 1965 with two greens in line with hollow. They continue to be nowadays. Those applied for the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP had been prepped to run 11-and-a-half of ft at the Stimpmeter. To honor the subculture of two greens in Japan, each the A and B greens on the par-4 fourth hollow may be used in some unspecified time in the future for the duration of the tournament. It's viable that another hollow or holes will also use trade vegetables. As regular, targets in play for every round can be decided while hollow places are posted.
If a golfer lands an technique on the incorrect green, the "incorrect inexperienced" local rule could be enforced. It will allow the golfer comfort off the inexperienced no closer the hole. No penalty will be assessed.Like I said, this could be interesting.
Since this is the first playing of this occasion, I don't have any beyond records that might supply me a touch approximately who to select this week. It's in all likelihood unrealistic to wish for as right a outcomes as I had final week... But allow's deliver it a shot.
- For my Top10er I'm picking Justin Thomas. It's asking a lot for him to go back-to-back, but I see no reason he couldn't add yet another Top10 to his current streak of good play. He's back up to #4 in the OWGR and, with Brooks out for this week, another good finish could help him make up some ground on #1.
- And for my winner I'm taking Jason Day... for no other reason than he won the Skins Game rather decisively. He's originally from this part of the world and has experience on courses like this. And I can't help but feel the Skins Game gave him a better perspective on Narashino than he would have had with just his normal practice rounds. That shouldn't hurt his chances at all!
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