It just struck me as humorous. The wunderkids of golfing are each caught at even par after one spherical at their respective occasions.
Lydia's scenario is less difficult to recognize. A US Open is a lot more hard than a John Deere Classic, and lots of greater-skilled players found themselves shifting unexpectedly below par only to have those strokes -- and extra! -- taken back simply as rapidly. The lead is simplest -4 -- held by means of Karrie Webb and Marina Alex -- and that on a moist direction that turned into set up to play slightly much less than 6400 yards. The women normally devour that form of setup for breakfast! Lydia is simply T18, which isn't always so bad after one spherical.
In addition, a destroy for lightning approach a number of the gamers did not finish their rounds Thursday. Depending on how soggy the course is after the "torrential rains" (it is how FOX defined them), Lydia's position might improve slightly.
But Jordan unearths himself tied for a hundred and first at a path where low scores are the norm. He's 8 off the lead starting spherical and will need some thing brilliant if he desires to play the weekend... As a minimum, if he desires to play in the US. Presumably he would depart early for St. Andrews if he misses the cut.
In the meantime, his pal Justin Thomas is tied for the lead with Lexi Thompson's brother Nicholas. (Lexi failed to end her spherical either. She's at even par with two holes to play.)
Of course you know you can catch the John Deere on GC and the US Women's Open on FOX Sports 1. However, you may not know that you can catch early coverage of the ladies at usga.org beginning at 10am ET for a couple of hours. (The link to the live coverage didn't show up until about 10 minutes before broadcast time. But if you don't see it, just wait; it will magically appear before 10.) And I believe the USGA site is also carrying coverage from 1:45pm-7pm ET, just in case you can't get FOX Sports 1.
At least, that is what it says at the LPGA leaderboard. And in case you need to see Lydia and also you don't have FOX Sports 1, you may need it. She's in the afternoon wave these days.
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