Ethe end of the second day of The Players Championship has been postponed to Saturday due to bad weather. The afternoon did not start very well for Spanish interests, with the Jon Rahm Withdrawn Due To Stomach Virusand the storm ended dark one day in which the South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout and the Canadian Adam Svensson they led the classification with -8 in the accumulated, although still in play.
In the clubhouse, the leader was the 26-year-old American Ben Griffin, a young golfer who has only been on the PGA Tour for a few months, where he arrived from the Korn Ferry Tour, and who without making much noise is improving tournament by tournament and is reaping good results. special mention for Jason Daywho for the second day in a row signed 70 shots and stars in a remarkable start to the course and also knows what it is to win at TPC Sawgrass. Viktor Hovland he was also with 140 in total.
Colin Morikawa He did not shine like in the first round and added +1 on the day when he played the 12th hole. Scottie Schefflerwho has a shot to snatch number one from Jon Rahm, was in 11 and with -1 on his provisional card.
Who is suffering more than expected after his good week at the Arnold Palmer is Rory McIlroy, who made 76 on the first day and on the second was passing the 11th hole with a +2 on his card for the day, thus accumulating +6 overall. The Northern Irishman explained on Thursday that he has been failing a lot lately with the driver because he had to change it at the Genesis Invitational. There he realized that the model he used was quite worn and would probably no longer pass the tests that the PGA Tour puts its golfers’ clubs through. The bad thing is Your brand has already released the updated version of the one you used and now you have to get used to a new material.
But for whoever was his captain in the Ryder Cup, Paul McGinley, what happens to Rory is that the battle with the LIV is taking its toll and “he’s tired”. The Irishman was able to see first-hand how the winner of the 2022 FedEx Cup was doing and stressed: “I saw a guy who wasn’t focused on the pitch, who was angry with himself, who was different from who he is, and I think his battery was low.”
McGinley alluded to McIlroy’s leadership in the conflict with the LIV: “Last week he had a seven-hour PGA board meeting, and he’s been front and center of everything that’s going on. He’s the one who gets the most exposure to the media, more than other players. I would like to see more players show their support for their circuit, “he said. Of course, all this hustle and bustle takes its toll on the winner of four ‘majors’.
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