The Northern Trust..Saturday tee times, live leaderboard https://www.pgatour.com/competition/2020/the-northern-trust/leaderboard.html
TPC Boston isn't suffering anything like the weather in Ayrshire where the women are battling the howling wind and rain at the AIG Women's Open, so the scoring for the first round of the PGA Tour playoffs at the Northern Trust reflected that, with 4 players at -7 64 leading after the opening round.
On Friday the low scoring got ridiculous for a course hosting the playoffs. First Scottie Scheffler became the 12th player in PGA Tour history to post a 59. Meanwhile Dustin Johnson was doing his thing posting a front nine -9 27, and after 2 more birdies at 10, 11 he was -11 through 11 holes before the golfing gods looked down in pity, took the heat out of his putter, and left him to par in for as Marc Leishman said "as easy a 60 as you will see"
He's at -15 leading Scheffler and Cameron Davis who's 65 looked ordinary, by 2 shots at -13. The average score on the par 71 layout is 68.1
Mac Hughes who fired -3 68 on Thursday leads the Canadians at T29 -6 after another 68, while Corey Connors recovered from an opening +1 72 with a 65, T40 -5.
Scoring is so low the cut fell at -3. Nick Taylor 68 73 and Adam Hadwin 70 72 couldn't keep pace and are finished for this week.
Rory McIlroy 69 70 -3, and Tiger 68 71 -3 just made the cut on the number, 12 shots off the lead heading into today's play.
Guys like Jordan Spieth, Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson, Collin Morikawa, Jason Day, Tony Finau are now finished for the year as well.
Last week at the Wyndham Championship the Sedgefield CC surrendered 21 strokes under par to journeyman Jim Herman, this week the lead is already -15 with two rounds to go.
Gary Player said years ago,"someday guys will drive the ball 400 yards and make many of our great courses obsolete"
In most sports the playoffs get tougher. Not so much so far on the PGA Tour..
Bryan Angus
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