GREENSBORO, N.C. — Beau Hossler shot a 10-under 60 on Friday within the rain-delayed Wyndham Championship, squandering an opportunity for a sub-60 spherical with pars on the final three holes at delicate and susceptible Sedgefield Nation Membership.
Hossler had a two-stroke lead over Billy Horschel within the match that began a day late after heavy rain and wind from Tropical Storm Debby washed out play Thursday. Play additionally was delayed Friday, with Horschel among the many 66 afternoon starters unable to complete the spherical due to darkness. He had two holes left.
With gamers allowed to raise, clear and place their golf balls within the fairways due to the moist circumstances, Hossler was 6 beneath after a tap-in eagle on the par-5 fifth and added a birdie on the par-4 eighth in a front-nine 28. He opened the again 9 birdie-bogey-birdie and made the final of his 9 birdies on Nos. 14 and 15.
“I drove it properly and significantly in all probability the spotlight of the spherical was simply mid-irons,” Hossler mentioned after the bottom spherical of his tour profession. “Just a few 6-irons I hit actually shut, 5-iron I virtually made a hole-in-one. It was a kind of days the place it felt like sort of every thing went proper.”
Winless on the PGA Tour, the 29-year-old former College of Texas star missed birdie putts from 30 ft on the par-3 sixteenth and and 17 ft on the par-4 seventeenth. On the par-4 18th, he drove into the left tough, hit right into a left greenside bunker and blasted out to 7 ft to arrange a par-saving putt. He was a stroke off the course file of 59 set by Brandt Snedeker within the first spherical of his 2018 victory.
“Any time you can also make a 4 on 18 right here you’ve achieved properly,” Hossler mentioned. “I knew if I had any probability to make birdie, I needed to get it within the fairway. As soon as I used to be within the left tough there was simply no method I’d be capable of get it on that shelf to have an actual look.”
Hossler entered the PGA Tour’s regular-season finale 87th within the FedExCup standings, with the highest 70 qualifying for the playoff opener subsequent week in Tennessee. He wants to complete alone in third or higher to have an opportunity to succeed in the playoffs.
“This course has not handled me significantly properly previously, so I used to be simply coming right here and attempting to play in addition to I may and see what I obtained,” Hossler mentioned.
Horschel, twenty seventh within the FedExCup and coming off a second-place tie three weeks in the past within the British Open, completed his day with a 4 1/2-foot birdie putt on 16. He holed out from 143 yards for eagle on the par-4 second.
“In the event you can put the ball within the fairway, which has at all times been the case right here, you could be aggressive,” Horschel mentioned. “Particularly, with delicate circumstances, that makes it much more necessary to have the ball within the fairway.”
In April within the Dominican Republic, he gained the Corales Puntacana Championship for his eighth PGA Tour title.
Nick Taylor of Canada was 7 beneath with 4 holes left.
Matt Kuchar, Brendon Todd, Austin Eckroat and Ben Taylor shot 64.
The lone participant to qualify for each postseason in FedExCup playoffs historical past, Kuchar entered the week 111th and desires a victory to get into the highest 70.
“I used to be capable of finding a variety of fairways,” Kuchar mentioned. “Enjoying raise, clear and place means I get to sort of cherry decide a lie, hit some good pictures, see just a few putts go in.”
Ben Taylor matched Hossler with a front-nine 28, then performed the again 9 in 1-over 36. He birdied the primary 5 holes and 7 of first eight. He closed with a bogey on 18 after electing to complete in the dead of night.
Jordan Spieth, at No. 62 in standings, eagled the par-5 fifteenth in a 67. He’s enjoying the occasion for the primary time since 2020.
