It's Labor Day weekend right here within the US and, even as there aren't quite a few tournaments going on, the ones which can be sincerely have the capacity to deliver a few high-quality tales.
On the ET on the Omega European Masters -- one in every of the bigger tournaments -- I referred to Paul Lawrie's hazard to move lower back-to-lower back after winning last week's Johnnie Walker Championship. (For the report I define "huge" at the ET as a purse of ?2,000,000 or extra, and the Omega is ?2,100,000.) I forgot to mention that this will be Lawrie's third win of the season, as he also won the Commercialbank Qatar Masters lower back in February. (Qatar is just below that ?2,000,000 mark.) As things stand proper now, Lawrie is simply 2 strokes off the lead after 36 holes.
But an similarly exact story there may be Julien Quesne, a French player who were given his first ET win earlier this yr at the Open de Andaluc?A Costa del Sol back in March. Quesne leads the match at -9, and climate has become a factor there... Which I trust will favor Lawrie. If you haven't been retaining up with the match, you truely must peek in on it.
On the Web.Com Tour, Ben Kohles -- one of the capability "battlefield merchandising" gamers -- had a hard 2d round and ended up 8 strokes again after 36 holes. However, Casey Wittenberg (the opposite ability BPer, who additionally happens to be a great buddy of LPGA participant Paula Creamer) is simply 2 pictures off the lead set through Brad Fritsch. Fritsch has had a hard season -- handiest 3 Top10s and six neglected cuts -- but he is playing a few fantastic golf this week with rounds of sixty six-sixty four. That one could also get very interesting.
And then there is the Deusche Bank -- most effective 18 holes at this factor because Labor Day lets in a Monday finish -- with Tiger posting certainly one of his first-class rounds of the 12 months (-7) at the side of Jeff Overton, who is been struggling maximum of this year. The breeze came up inside the afternoon and the general consensus was that those rounds could preserve up. WRONG!
Not only did Ryan Moore in shape that -7 within the afternoon, however Chris Kirk (who is also struggled this yr) posted -eight. However, I must toot my personal horn a bit. Remember the day prior to this after I said Seung-Yul Noh remained on my "Players to Watch" listing and that we should not write him off yet? He took the lead with a bogey-free -nine for the duration of the afternoon!
Add Rory, Oosthuizen, Poults, DJ, Luke, and Dufner -- all inside the Top 10 -- to the mixture, and this will turn out to be being a shootout come Monday.
In case you do not live inside the US, Labor Day weekend typically finally ends up being full of cookouts and different get-togethers. That's the purpose for this little breakdown. Hopefully it's going to assist all our partygoers make certain they don't leave out any of the players that hobby them!
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