Bridgestone Senior Players leaderboard / tee times..https://www.pgatour.com/champions/competition/2020/bridgestone-senior-players-championship/leaderboard.html
Mike Weir raced out with 4 birdies in his first 8 holes to lead the Bridgestone Senior Players at the difficult Firestone GC south course with it's tight fairways, thick rough and tricky greens.
A bogey at the 9th had him out in 32, still leading -3, before a bad break at the par 4 10th when his approach over a greenside bunker was right at the pin, but just caught the thick collar of rough 20 feet from the hole. He chipped out gingerly, missed the putt, missed the comeback for a messy double bogey six, and he'd lost 3 shots in 2 holes, dropping to -1.
On the par 3 12th he got a bad bounce on the green, shooting off into the bunker, now short sided. He splashed out, and rolled right across the green, but saved par with a curling 30 footer.
However a bogey at 13, and 3 more to finish at 16,17 18 brought him in with 40 strokes and a +2 72 T21.
When the day was done, -2 68 was the best score, posted by Miguel Jimenez, Wes Short, Steve Stricker, Jerry Kelly and Aussie Rod Pampling. Only 6 players broke par.
The South course was named The Monster by Arnie Palmer after a triple bogey on the 667 yard par 5 16th in the 1960 PGA Championship.
There are 20 more players within 3 shots of the lead including Bernhard Langer, Ernie Els and Fred Couples.
Then Weir joins 9 more players 4 shots back at +2.
Stephen Ames had 5 bogey's and 2 birdies, out in 36, back in 37 for a +3 73 T30 while David Morland is T53 with +6 76.
Bryan Angus
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