PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry adorned gorgeous views Thursday with a hole-in-one for every on completely different programs. Russell Henley birdied his final two holes for an 8-under 64 and the lead on the AT&T Pebble Seashore Professional-Am. And there was Scottie Scheffler, wanting very very similar to he was by no means away.
Scheffler, out of golf for a month from a freak harm making ravioli, opened with a bogey at Spyglass Hill, did not make one other bogey the remainder of the way in which, missed just one inexperienced and commenced his encore with a 67.
“I like what I noticed in the present day,” stated Scheffler, who wound up lacking two tournaments to begin the 12 months. “I hit a couple of errant pictures on the market, however general stored the course in entrance of me for essentially the most half, so I used to be in a position to make an honest quantity of birdies.”
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Jordan Spieth, the three-time main champion who final performed in August earlier than season-ending surgical procedure on his left wrist, had the birdies dry up after a strong begin on the again 9 at Spyglass Hill. He needed to accept a 70.
The situations had been as calm as they in all probability will get this week, with some cloud cowl and funky climate. Pebble Seashore sometimes is the place to be when the wind would not blow due to the scoring alternatives, significantly on the primary seven holes. It is the worst place to be — in golf competitors phrases, anyway — when the wind arrives.
Henley was at Spyglass, which had a course common (69.775) that was 1.6 pictures greater than Pebble Seashore. Viktor Hovland — who felt his recreation was “not excellent” getting into the event, shot 65 at Pebble Seashore, together with Cam Davis, Jake Knapp and Justin Rose. Sepp Straka and Rasmus Hojgaard shot their 65s at Spyglass.
Scheffler went from the hill proper of the tenth fairway at Spyglass to a entrance bunker, blasted out some 20 ft and missed his par putt. That was his solely bogey, although he was 1 over till lacing a fairway steel to 30 ft for a two-putt birdie on the par-5 14th.
In line with golf analyst Justin Ray, Scheffler had his one hundredth spherical on the PGA Tour since 2022 with one bogey or fewer. That is what McIlroy was raving about when he spoke of golf’s finest participant earlier within the week. A month away, and a failed try at slicing ravioli dough with a wine glass, hasn’t modified that.
Data from The Related Press was used on this report.
