PONTE VEDRA COASTLINE, Fla.– It nearly appeared like the PGA Tour’s center (and also functioning) course had a pointer for its celebrities in the opening up round of the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass on Thursday.
The message: Hey, we’re not that negative either.
After the excursion introduced Tuesday that it will certainly present 8 assigned occasions with restricted areas and also no cuts beginning in 2024, a huge selection of gamers rated outdoors the leading 100 in the globe were close to the leading of the leaderboard at the excursion’s front runner occasion.
In reality, if it weren’t for Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler and also Sam Burns, it may be challenging for any person apart from diehard golf followers to identify gamers inside the leading 10.
Chad Ramey, that is ratedNo 225 in the globe, carded an 8-under 64 to get hold of the first-round leadat the Stadium Course Canada’s Taylor Pendrith,No 114 in the globe, is 3 shots back, together with Ben Griffin and also Justin Suh, that areNos 78 and also 102 in the Official World Golf Ranking, specifically.
Suh had 3 openings entrusted to go on Thursday when play was put on hold at 6:28 p.m. ET since of darkness.
Two years back, Griffin was funding domestic home loans as a funding police officer at a financial institution. The previous North Carolina celebrity was asked if he might have envisioned completing in the Players at that time.
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