For the second day in a row, Taylor Pendrith saved his scorecard flawless. He fired off a 7-under 64 Friday to take a seat at 12-under general and lead by two at the 3M Open.
In spherical 1, the Canadian golfer shot a bogey-free 5-under 66. He has not dropped a single shot in 36 holes. Pendrith was considered one of three gamers who shot 64s in Spherical 2 of the 3M Open.
The 33-year-old completed T5 final week in Lake Tahoe on the Barracuda Championship, and the robust play adopted him to TPC Twin Cities.
“At present was fairly difficult with the wind, blowing fairly laborious at instances, so my velocity was nice all day, and I stayed affected person,” Pendrith stated after his spherical Friday. “I didn’t have many attractiveness via the primary hour — Was capable of keep affected person and make a pair longer ones, which was good.”
He thrived the primary two days of play, whereas many gamers recorded excessive numbers. For the previous Kent State golfer, it got here all the way down to a key factor he did proper.
“I hit a number of greens,” he stated. “At present particularly I really feel like I had some in-between numbers and selected the sensible membership and hit it to 40 ft and took my two-putt, take my medication. Then hit a number of actually high quality photographs and was capable of make some birdies.
“Yeah, driving the ball in play right here is vital. Hitting the greens — they’re pretty massive, so that you do need to have good velocity on the greens, however I’ve been capable of do all three of these.”
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Pendrith hit 16-of-18 greens in regulation on Friday and made 145 ft of putts. He’s No. 3 in strokes gained placing (+3.757), seventh off the tee (+1.510) and tied on the high in strokes gained complete (+7.054).
The 33-year-old gained the CJ CUP Byron Nelson in Could and stated it was an enormous confidence increase. Since that victory, Pendrith has two top-10s and 5 top-25s.
“I felt like I had been taking part in some good golf this yr, so to lastly get that executed felt superior,” Pendrith stated. “Hopefully draw on these experiences the subsequent two days and be in competition on Sunday, that will be nice, and have an opportunity to win. Simply centered on tomorrow’s spherical and preserve doing what I’ve been doing.”
Pendrith at the moment sits in twenty ninth place within the FedEx Cup standings, so a win right here could possibly be an enormous leap for him.
A win right here would give him 500 FedEx Cup factors and transfer his complete to 1,714. He might transfer up from twenty ninth to thirteenth, securing his spot in Atlanta.
He may have a late tee time on Saturday as Pendrith appears to be like to safe his second win of the season and turn out to be the sixth participant to win no less than twice in 2024.
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