LAS VEGAS — Taylor Pendrith was spared wind so robust it brought about a four-hour delay and battered the sector Friday within the Shriners Hospital Open. The Canadian solely needed to play six holes and stayed within the lead earlier than the second spherical was halted by darkness.
Pendrith, who had a 10-under 61 on Thursday in a comparatively calm morning to start out the match, now faces a protracted Saturday — 12 holes to finish the second spherical and nonetheless many holes within the third spherical because the autumn gentle permits.
He remained at 10 underneath — 4 pars, a birdie and a bogey in his brief day of labor — and led by one shot over Rico Hoey, who made a 15-foot eagle putt on his seventh and closing gap.
Much more spectacular was Las Vegas resident Kurt Kitayama, who was bogey-free for a 68 in gusts approaching 40 mph and temperatures that led to a wardrobe of sweaters and ski caps.
Kitayama was a part of the group at 8-under 134 that included Doug Ghim, J.J. Spaun and Davis Thompson, all of whom accomplished the second spherical. It took Ghim eight holes earlier than he made his first par, and he wound up with hard-earned 70.
“Simply quite a lot of affected person golf and understanding the worth of a par was going to be a bit bit larger than regular,” Ghim mentioned.
The beginning Friday was delayed 4 hours when gusts approaching 50 mph made it troublesome to play and brought about sufficient security issues that PGA Tour officers determined to maintain spectators away from the TPC Summerlin. Their tickets had been to be honored Saturday.
As soon as the gamers had been cleared to play, it wasn’t a lot simpler to evaluate how far the ball was flying within the wind and cooler temperatures and the way a lot roll there can be on the bottom with a serving to gust.
Placing wasn’t a lot simpler, and nobody suffered fairly like Joseph Bramlett. He had a 10-foot birdie putt on No. 1, his tenth gap of the second spherical, and 5 putts later walked off the inexperienced with a triple bogey. Bramlett additionally missed a 30-inch birdie putt Thursday.
Greyson Sigg by no means needed to work so exhausting for a 69.
“I felt like I shot 62 at this time to be sincere, and I solely shot 2 underneath,” Sigg mentioned. “It was so chilly this morning. I believe we had been lucky they delayed it a bit bit. Man, it was blowing from the primary shot of the day and all the way in which to the top. It was a psychological check on the market at this time and I did a reasonably good job of that.”
The perfect spherical of the day belonged to Pierceson Coody, who managed eight birdies in his spherical of 65 after opening with a 72. He was at 5-under 137.
Pendrith watched most of this from his resort room between naps. When he lastly teed off late within the afternoon, the wind was nonetheless gusting loads and he might recognize the problem.
“I believe it died down a bit bit for us, however nonetheless some actually robust gusts that you simply form of needed to time your putts. Placing is de facto robust within the wind I assumed,” he mentioned. “General actually exhausting day, and I do know these guys within the morning had it a bit tougher.”
The worst of it was forecast to be transferring on, although robust wind was anticipated no less than via half of Saturday.
Nonetheless to come back was the 36-hole lower, which was hovering between 3-under par and 2-under par.
