– Justin thomas he is a reliable leader where they exist. Of the eleven times he has started first on a Sunday, he has managed to win eight. Single Tiger Woods Y Burn Grace They have a better percentage on the PGA Tour and the European Tour of all those who have been in the same situation at least seven times.
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It is true, however, that in 2017 he already came out as a solo leader on Sunday in this same tournament and finished in fifth position. Of his 18 birdies in the tournament, twelve have been made in the second nine holes.
Thomas is looking in Mexico to join a very prestigious club of which they only belong Jack Nicklaus, Sam Snead Y Tiger Woods. It would be the fourth on the PGA Tour to win at least thirteen tournaments before his 27th birthday. Counting since 1935.
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– A Erik Van RooyenSecond to a Justin Thomas coup, he does not like the scapegoat role endorsed by the American media. The South African rebels against that. «Of course today I was nervous about going out in the last game, but when that doesn’t happen, there is something wrong with my head. They are good nerves. I know that I have fewer honors than the rest of the players at the top, but I am also clear that I am playing very well, my head is where it needs to be and at this level I am capable of beating anyone anywhere ». Van Rooyen needs a second solo spot to achieve the conditional card of the PGA Tour.
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By the way, he started the tournament with +3 in the first nine holes and has a cumulative -17 in the remaining 45. They are not bad, although Rahm’s -15 in the last 27 is much more impressive.
– Patrick Reed he is the best kicker of the tournament. Nobody has done more greens to a putt than him during the week (34). He is convinced that he can win and, in addition, he wants to get the thorn out of the Sentry Tournament of Champions, when he fell in the tiebreaker against, precisely, Justin Thomas.
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– Mexico is celebrating with Abraham Ancer Y Carlos Ortiz. They are both in the top 20 of the tournament, a feat for a country that is slowly making more and more noise in the best tournaments in the world.
– Rahm’s hole in one at 17 overshadowed the one he made At Reavie in hole 3. But to Caesar what is Caesar’s. There: a 9 iron at 167 yards. He is one of the sharpest players on the PGA Tour. It is the fifth of his career.
– Gary Woodland he is ninth to six shots behind Justin Thomas. Believe it or not, he has never, ever, been among the top ten in a WGC stroke play format… Who would have thought it of the US Open champion.
– Rory McIlroy yesterday hit two drives over 400 yards. One was at 10, 412, and another at 10, 410. In the first case he made par and in the second, birdie.
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– The average of strokes in Chapultepec is getting better and better. The first day it went above 72, on Friday it was above 71 and yesterday it closed at just over 70 strokes. The accumulated total of the tournament on Thursday was +100, on Friday it was -52 and yesterday it was -90.
– Pablo Larrazabal (+2) handed over a 70 hit card, one under par. He didn’t play as well as Thursday, but he did improve on Friday’s performance. In fact, the lap was going very well until a treacherous boat got him into trouble at hole 1, he ended up bogey and lost concentration a bit. It was difficult for him to return from there. By the way, in 5 he saved an anthological bogey by going back to the trees. He tried to put it through a space of about two meters sixty meters from where he was with a low ball and it bounced off the tree to the right, to hole 6. From there he played it again, going through all the trees below and hit an impressive shot . He left an option of a pair of three meters that he did not put.
– Sergio garcia (+3) has played under par (70) but the end has been choked again, with two bogeys in the last three holes. This time he played worse from tee to green, but found himself more comfortable with putting. Sunday’s lap should be to get good feelings for the future.
– Jorge Campillo (+7) has played under par and has broken the barrier of 70 strokes. However, his best moment was at the 15th hole. His third shot was great. He was far to the left, near the 11th fairway. From there he hit a low ball, against the rough slope of the green and was about to make an eagle. Spectacular.
