Neither Robert Streb or Patrick Reed has played mainly properly -- particularly in the first round -- for some months now. Quail Hollow seems to be simply what they had to perk up their video games.
Streb has ignored four of his ultimate 6 cuts and shot eighty twice in the closing three months. He informed PGATOUR.Com that he sooner or later observed his placing stroke remaining week at THE PLAYERS, and his 65 (-7) on Thursday without a doubt appears to lower back that up.
Reed hasn't been that terrible but he's been suffering with a hook. That's never appropriate in case you want to win however it did not prevent him from posting a sixty six (-6) of his very own.
Quail Hollow, as Phil Mickelson told GC, is a kinder gentler golfing course for those who have a tendency to be a bit wild... And neither participant was mainly correct off the tee. Streb hit most effective 6 of 14 fairways and even as Reed did higher, he nevertheless simplest hit 8 of 14. The shorter tough at Quail Hollow without a doubt helped each guys.
But the true tale of the tape came in their GIR stats. Despite lacking such a lot of fairways Streb still controlled to hit 14 of 18 vegetables and get some use from that putter. Reed endured to conflict, hitting simplest eleven of 18 vegetables, so it become his scrambling that kept him in the hunt on Thursday.
I do not imply to suggest that either man is the favorite to win this week. But their first rounds do demonstrate simply how wide open this tournament might be by way of Sunday afternoon. Birdies honestly roost at Quail Hollow.
The trick is averting the bogeyman. He's hiding there too.
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