Day 2 of the Zurich Classic is in the books, but unfortunately Round 2 is nowhere near over at TPC Louisiana. Weather delays stopped play for over seven hours on Thursday, and although lots of golf was played on Friday, there’s still plenty of ground to make up on Saturday morning.
Here’s everything you missed from Friday’s action in New Orleans.
The afternoon wave never had the chance to tee off on Thursday, and only eight teams managed to finish their first rounds on time. That meant there was a lot of golf to make up on Friday. Thursday’s afternoon wave of players completed 36 holes on Friday, while the remaining players from Thursday’s morning wave had second round tee times between 5:30 p.m. and 7:09 p.m. local time on Friday.
UPDATE: R2 tee times @Zurich_Classic will be 1:15-2:54 p.m. CT Friday for the first wave and 5:30-7:09 p.m. for the second wave.
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) April 26, 2019
The tournament’s cut will be made once the second wave finishes the second round on Saturday morning beginning at 7:00 a.m. local time.
Malnati and Hurley III shot 63-67 to get to 14 under par for the tournament — good enough for a one-shot lead. But both Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown and Rory Sabbatini and Brian Gay are only one shot back, with 14 holes remaining in their second rounds.
To put that in perspective, six under par is the lowest a team has gotten thus far in the foursomes format, and the two teams are currently three under and one under, respectively, in the second round.
In case you need a reminder of how difficult the foursomes format can be, consider this: even the best players in the world struggle to make par when they’re forced to play each other’s shots.
Case in point: Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel. On the 383-yard par-4 10th hole, the duo made … a quintuple bogey. Yep, a 9. Five over par on a single hole. Yikes.
Some highly anticipated pairings are doing better than others. Here’s a rundown of the scores so far.
Henrik Stenson & Graeme McDowell: -12
Defending champs Billy Horschel & Scott Piercy: -10
Keegan Bradley & Jon Curran: -9
J.B. Holmes & Bubba Watson: -8
Cameron Champ & Sam Burns: -7
Jason Dufner & Pat Perez: -7
Sergio Garcia & Tommy Fleetwood: -7
Brooks Koepka & Chase Kopeka: -8
Jason Day & Adam Scott: -7
David Duval & Jim Furyk: -4
Patrick Reed & Patrick Cantlay: -4
Louis Oosthuizen & Charl Schwartzel: -2
Trevor Immelman & Ernie Els: -1
Davis Love III & Dru Love: +1
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