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Jason Day made the TPC Sawgrass look ridiculously easy on Thursday, tying the course record with his -9 63 for a 2 shot lead... but hold on a moment..
As Johnny Miller said in his post round summation, the course set up and the weather for the early wave, were a perfect storm for the lowest scoring average in the history of this championship.
Soft greens, reduced rough to 2" which is making fairways wider, generous pin placements at the front of many greens and benign conditions all combined to make scoring as easy as it can be on this tough championship course.
Rory McIlroy and Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth were all in the late wave and shot 72. Rory said afterwards, " I don't know what course the guys played this morning but it certainly wasn't the one we played this afternoon, where the wind was up and the greens were drying out and getting crusty"
Said Rickie " This course is only going to get tougher and will be very difficult as always come Sunday, so I will try to play a good competitive round on Friday and we'll see how we all stand Friday night"
So for those who are gifting this championship to Day's 63 and all the other 65's 66's and 67's from the Thursday morning flight, let's just wait until the roles are reversed today, add up all the scores and I believe we will see a fairer reflection of the scoring.
Update Rory McIlroy is -4 through 4 holes this morning so far..
Canadian scores: Nick Taylor -5 67, David Hearn -1 71, Graham DeLaet -2 70, Adam Hadwin -2 70
Bryan Angus
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