Want more pain in the player championship? Forecasting is calling

Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. – Tommy Fleetwood withdrew from thought. The Englishman had just walked out Stadium course on TPC saw Following the purpose of a six under 66 in benign conditions in 2025 player championship.

Is this easier you’ve seen this course game?

“Difficult question,” Fleetwood said. “No, I don’t think so. I don’t think you’re playing so easily. Soft software, right? That’s for sure. I still think the wind makes a big difference. I think it will continue to dry, so I think this morning we have had the best absolute conditions you can hope for, and while the Sawgrass goes from a scorbility point of view, this morning was for a good extension as you will get it. “

Fleetwood was one of several players who bought the stadium course during the early wave of the morning. Collin Morikawa shot seven under. Min woo lee, akshay bhatia and Harris English joined Fleetwood with 66s. Rory McilroyJJ Spaun and Jake KNAPP fired four under.

But while the tortured room filled with the danger of Pete Dye has been possible during the first two days, the real challenge approaches the horizon.

Winds often destroying the TPC saw this time have not yet arrived. They touched 15 km / h for a short time in round 1 and maximized around 10pm on Friday.

The day of movement should be a completely different beast, with the winds projected to be between 15 and 25 mph and gusts up to 30.

“I’m waiting for her,” said Rickie Fowler, which sits on five under. “Of course, you can’t falsify it, and undoubtedly about this place, no odor, you can’t forgive it. So it has to be interesting. It will be a great test to check only the golf ball, as well as emotions because you will not go to play the perfect golf about this place in the wind 30 miles.”

“The wind we are waiting to project the next two days will be a helluva challenge,” Billy Horschel said. “You always want it to be difficult, but when you start getting wind conditions like this, golf quality shots do not always go out well. One of those days of admission and understanding that you will hit some good shots that come out well and some bad shots that come out in some really bad points.”

Schcheffler scottie defensive champion will enter the weekend in six shots behind Lee and Bhatia. Adult winds and toughening conditions can help Scheffler as it aims to wrap leaders. But he also knows that he has left no room for error. Even if the winds level those who are sprinted at the top of the manager’s table, he will have to execute in a way that he does not have in the first two days to raise a successful charge on a three peat.

“It will be pretty challenging this weekend,” Scheffler said after shooting two under Friday. “The golf course was definitely of the first two days. I was not able to use it as I would hope.

“The wind moves around a good amount here. If you go to a course like where they are usually open championships, you can play the ball on the ground. About this place, you can’t really. Straight roads are quite soft. You have to get the ball in the air, and so you need to make sure you are checking your spin, hitting it really strong. Sometimes it can feel like you are a little speculating of the wind, and we hope you think more often than you are wrong. “

Horschel remembers the brutal conditions in the players of 2022, where the winds decreased between 20-25 mph with gusts 40 km per hour, forcing him to hit the driver-3 wood in par-4 18, and the winds wipe a number of players in the famous 17th hole.

“Tomorrow, if it’s anything similar to what we played in (2022), it will be very, very difficult,” Horschel said.

Those winds were coming from the north-north-west. They have to come from southeast on Saturday, which should make it more manageable.

However, those who benefited from the interconnected conditions are preparing for another course this weekend.

“It will be difficult,” said Lee, who posted 67-66 during the first two days. “We received the text message yesterday from the tournament saying they will fix the course in it. It is a difficult course even without odor, and it’s intimidating.”

Added challenge should help cleanse a table full of peopleServing as a divider in a known course for torturing them, whose game is a little far away.

“I’m waiting for him,” Mcilroy said. “I think it will be really important to try to fly your ball and keep it under the tree line. I think after getting over the tree line here, it can start to really hit it. It swings a little, but I think when the wind is so strong, it will be a little more durable. But this course is quite challenging, but with that.

Through the 36 holes, the host greens and the pleasant weather have received many of the bite from the TPC saw.

A new reality has to arrive at the weekend, with the waxing of the wind a creating of pete colors that are ready to come back.