Yes, there had been a few wild goings-on in the world of golfing on Friday... And lots of them worried bounces.
For example, I guess nearly everyone heard approximately the pinball shot beginner Chris Mohan made at the par-3 17th hole at the Humana Challenge. The ball went huge left, bounced a ways right, then bounced returned onto the inexperienced. Mohan made the birdie!
BTW, Holly Sonders is keeping up her cease of things in the novice competition there. Of the 4 invitees, simplest Craig T. Nelson (-13) is gambling better than Holly (-eleven). Michael Bolton (-8) and Jay Feely (-6) will must confess they were given beat with the aid of a lady. Relative to the field, Holly is T91 out of 156 amateurs; the leader, Dave Colby, is -23 after two rounds... And shot a internet 58 within the second spherical!
HOWEVER, there have been some wild bounces somewhere else additionally. At the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai, the Champions Tour occasion in Hawaii, Fred Couples did his personal pinball imitation on the par-5 seventh while his 2nd shot went some distance right and bounced manner up inside the air, off the cartpath, and onto the inexperienced for an eight-foot eagle. (Sorry I couldn't find a better video.)
And Bernhard Langer is attempting to bounce back from a thumb injury he sustained for the duration of the seasoned-am there on Thursday. He stated it's causing giant pain despite the fact that he changed into capable of play via it in Friday's round. It's the same thumb he had surgical operation on a few months ago, in order that damage bears looking.
The bounces in Dubai, on the European Tour occasion, had not anything to do with rocks or lava but have been quite dramatic nonetheless. Phil Mickelson bounced back from his birdieless first spherical with 5 of them in the 2nd, and Rory McIlroy persevered his bounceback from a terrible 2013 by posting a 67 to get inside 2 pictures of the lead.
But the maximum dramatic changed into seeing Henrik Stenson get bounced from the match. According to the ET internet site, it is his first neglected cut on the ET since the Alfred Dunhill Links in October 2012 -- 469 days. (He had also overlooked the reduce at the PGA Tour at the 2013 Wells Fargo Championship in May.) Still, in any case his excellent play inside the last few months, it is strange seeing him omit the reduce.
I marvel what sort of bounces we would see this weekend?
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