Brian Gay bogies #11 to drop a shot down to one under par now. Tiger and Justin are on the green close to the pin in birdie land now.....DJ will be hitting his 3rd shot on this par 4.
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Brian Gay bogies #11 to drop a shot down to one under par now. Tiger and Justin are on the green close to the pin in birdie land now.....DJ will be hitting his 3rd shot on this par 4.
Looks like Henley is also gonna drop a shot to par back to 2 under. Sergio Garcia birdies to go to even par. Tiger did birdie the previous hole to drop back down to +3 and will have another opportunity to get another birdie on this hole.
Henly blows that short putt and will drop TWO shots and out of the lead now....he goes to one under par. Tiger misses the birdie attempt. Now Justin Thomas will try his birdie attempt. DJ will try first for his par attempt out of the tall heather. Nope....he drops one too. One under is leading the tournament. Dufner misses an eagle for the lead. There's a 9-way tie for the lead at one under. Thomas rims the cup for his birdie....he remains at +1 for the day.
Tiger and the boyz are on the par 3 7th hole now. Bello and Sergio are tied at even par for the Spaniard trio. DJ makes another nice shot on the par 3 7th for a reasonable birdie attempt. Sergio bogies again to start the back nine at one over.
It doesn't appear that the wind is gusting any harder than it was earlier this morning with the early tee times......about the same so far.
DJ, JT, and Tiger all make pars at the par-3 7th hole.
Jason Dufner is dialed in and hits another beauty right at the pin.....just below the hole about 3 feet. Looks like birdieland to me.
Justin Thomas(JT) nearly holes out his approach shot onto the 8th green. Now Tiger at bat.....he puts one in there too about 5 feet right of the hole. DJ on deck now.....only 105 to the hole. His hits and falls into the leftside bunker. Dufner's putt is actually about 5 feet and he sneaks it in to take the lead at 2 under.
Holy Cowabunga!!! DJ chips it in for birdie from the bunker.....like a magician. Now he's tied with Dufner for the lead.
Tiger misses his 7 footer and pars. Now JT's turn for birdie. He's about 4 feet away. He misses too and stays at +1. Tiger stays at +3.
Sergio hits it over the green on #10 and double bogies the hole.....the same as Russell Henley did earlier to drop out of the lead.
The truth is that Justin Thomas is really playing well today, just not making some putts like DJ has. But DJ has a 3-stroke lead on Thomas and tied with Dufner at -2. Thomas has had his chances.....just has not converted those opportunities.....yet.
It's a big boost in confidence when you hole-out a birdie from the greenside bunker.....especially to go back into a tie for the lead in the US OPEN in the first round. Dufner misses a short putt for par and falls out of a tie with DJ now.
Uh-Oh.....DJ airmails it over the green on his approach to #9. He hit that ball too high and the wind got it. Tiger's shot stays on the green toward the back.