Jake KNAPP shot the 15th sub-60 score in PGA Tour’s History Thursday at Cognizant Classic.
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Daniel Berger played the round of his year on Thursday morning at Classic connoisseurs.
In nine rounds at the PGA Tour’s annual event in Palm Beach, Berger has never fired better than him Opening round 63 on “Trap Bear”, and for a good reason. This week the tournaments typically brings one of the worst groups of the year. In a course like this, Berger’s 63 qualifies as one of the best rounds of the year.
So you can imagine his surprise on Thursday afternoon when he learned that his 63 did not qualify as the round of day
“I thought I played well … but then someone shot 59,” Berger said with a thorn. “It is clear that the course was not the old bear trap we are used to.”
59 belonged to Jake KNAPP and his impression needs no explanation. KNAPP made birds in two -thirds of the golf holes he played on Thursday morning, 12 out of 18, and his six remaining holes did not appear Bogeys. His round ranks as only the 15th sub-60 score in PGA Tour’s history.
But Berger’s feeling – that the course looked different – separated from much of the field on Thursday. Comrade Michael Kim stated openly: Bear trap was playing more as well as a gold Hug
“Big Rye supervised and no wind makes this course much easier,” Posted kim Thursday morning. “But I didn’t think I would be 6 strokes back after a 65.”
One factor that helped Thursday’s low results was the weather, which was completely breeze and smooth warm-ideal to shoot at the pins. But another factor, some players said, was a dramatic supervised rye that helped to bring down the typical course conditions.
“Right routes that supervise changes (golf course) too much because they will make fairways softer which makes them wider, and then around the greens is significantly easier than dormant Bermuda,” Jordan Spieth said. “You are easily looking at a hook in a round only in changing the types of grass on the good road.”
In mid -Thursday afternoon, Spieth proved wrong. The average note in the connoisseur was 67.85, ready two Shots lower than average note in the opening round one year ago (69.55).
Why supervision? Hard hard to say. In places where winter golf is common, many and oversee their local herbs with rye to help maintain appearance and games during cold weather months. Presentations are important for a course like PGA National, which will be transmitted around the world during the expert. However, the course has survived many years on television without a dramatic supervised enough to affect the game conditions as it is this week, which asks an important question: why?
