PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — Talor Gooch made a 4-foot birdie putt on his closing gap to tie Peter Uihlein for the lead in a LIV Golf season debut at Mayakoba that appears to be an Oklahoma State alumni reunion.
Uihlein was within the lead for many of Saturday at El Camaleon till a bogey-birdie-bogey end led to a 5-under 66. Gooch performed bogey-free, ending his spherical with an method to brief vary on the par-4 first gap.
They had been teammates at Oklahoma State — Uihlein was a junior having received the U.S. Amateur at Chambers Bay when Gooch was a freshman.
They had been at 9-under 133, one shot forward of Charles Howell III, who performed for the Cowboys greater than a decade earlier. Howell opened with three straight birdies and closed with a birdie for a 66.
Paul Casey was within the combine till three bogeys over his final 4 holes gave him a 71 and left him three pictures behind, together with Branden Grace (68).
Uihlein completed at No. 3 on the factors record in LIV’s inaugural season, and he was recruited to exchange Gooch as a part of the 4 Aces group captained by Dustin Johnson. He closed out the entrance 9 with 5 birdies in a six-hole stretch earlier than settling right into a sequence of pars till his wild end.
“The back nine was just tough. The greens got a little crusty,” Uihlein mentioned. “I kept the ball in play, which is all you can really do around here.”
In the group competitors, Howell’s spherical helped carry the Crushers to a two-shot lead over 4 Aces.
Mayakoba held a PGA Tour occasion from 2007 till final November. Howell performed that event 13 occasions with three high 10s, his greatest a tie for fourth in 2018.
“I’ve played this golf course many times. You just never get comfortable around it,” Howell mentioned. “If you drive it well, you can play it. So we’ve got a tough day ahead of us.”
Johnson needed to accept a 71, taking a double bogey late in his spherical, and located himself six pictures out of the lead.
Phil Mickelson made just one birdie in his spherical of 75 and was 14 pictures behind after two rounds. The third and closing spherical is Sunday.
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