LAS VEGAS — Taylor Pendrith took two weeks off after the Presidents Cup and didn’t miss a beat, matching his career-low on the PGA Tour with a 10-under 61 that gave him a three-shot lead within the Shriners Kids’s Open on Thursday.
Pendrith missed just one fairway and one inexperienced on the TPC Summerlin, each on the identical gap. The Canadian pulled his tee shot on the 18th gap — his ninth — needed to pitch out sideways, hit wedge to 7 toes and saved his par.
The remaining was a gentle food regimen of huge drives, a whole lot of wedges and good placing. His solely disappointment was the par-5 ninth, his remaining gap. He had solely 200 yards into the inexperienced and knew an eagle would give him a 59.
Joel Dahmen was penalized 4 strokes Thursday on the Shriners Kids’s Open.
“Tried to be aggressive and hit shot and simply didn’t catch all of it, and got here up quick proper within the bunker,” Pendrith mentioned.
He blasted out to 12 toes and missed the putt, together with an opportunity to tie the course report at Summerlin final set by Rod Pampling in 2017.
Pendrith additionally shot a 61 within the Bermuda Championship three years in the past.
Bud Cauley and Matti Schmid have been amongst 10 gamers at 7-under 64. The primary spherical was suspended by darkness, the second straight week the opening spherical couldn’t be accomplished regardless of no climate delays. Seven gamers didn’t end.
Pendrith had the benefit of taking part in within the morning, earlier than the wind started to extend. The forecast is for the strongest wind on Friday, upward of 20 mph.
Tom Kim, the two-time defending champion, needed to make 5 birdies during the last 11 holes to scratch out a 69. That leaves him eight pictures behind in his bid to develop into the primary participant since Steve Stricker on the John Deere Traditional (2009-11) to win the identical PGA Tour occasion three straight instances.
Matt McCarty, the Korn Ferry Tour grad who received the inaugural Black Desert Championship in Utah final week, didn’t birdie any of the three par 5s and shot 71.
Schmid was coming off a 62 within the remaining spherical in Utah to complete fifth, shifting him off the bubble at No. 120 to No. 105 within the FedEx Fall. An enormous a part of this stretch of the PGA Tour is for gamers to complete within the prime 125 to safe a full card for 2025.
