Power slips eight back in Myrtle Beach; Wilson shines in Korea
Seamus Power went from a shot off the lead to scraping through the cut line in windy conditions at the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic.
The West Waterford man (38) dropped four shots in his first eight holes in 20mph winds at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club and followed his opening 64 with a five-over 76 to slip from joint second to 57th on two-under.
He made the cut on the mark but trails leaders Mackenzie Hughes of Canada - his playing partner for the first two days - and Chile’s Cristobal del Solar by eight strokes.
“It was blowing significantly harder,” Hughes said after carding a 69 to Del Solar’s 67 to share the lead on 10-under, one ahead of five players.
“I mean, yesterday there was virtually no wind, and then today hit some shots where I was playing, you know, 20 yards of help or 20 yards of hurt at times. So, versus playing virtually none yesterday.
“Yeah, again, I thought it was challenging. I'm sure some guys had their way with the course and played well.
“I know there were some good scores in the morning. I would love to know what the low in the afternoon was, but yeah, I thought it was challenging.
“I didn't quite have my stuff, but all in all, kind of pleased with how it ended up.”
Power didn’t hit a fairway until his seventh hole - the 16th - but by then, he’d hit it in the left trees at the 11th, the water right at the 13th and the left rough at the 14th to drop three shots.
He dropped another shot after missing left on the short 17th, and while he birdied the 18th from four feet, he three-putted the fifth from 50 feet and dropped another shot at the eighth following another missed fairway.
While he hit seven fairways in the end, he found just eight greens in regulation and didn’t make a putt outside four feet.
If not already eligible, the winner of the event, held as an Additional Event alongside the Truist Championship this week, will earn a spot in the PGA Championship.
That's not the case for Hughes or Power, who will be in the field next week at Quail Hollow.
Nick Watney (44), who hasn't won in 13 years, shot 67 to lie a shot off the lead alongside Danny Walker (67), Harry Higgs (66), Will Chandler (69) and Davis Shore (66).
At the Aramco Korea Championship on the Ladies European Tour, Castlerock’s Annabel Wilson goes into tomorrow’s final round just four shots off the lead.
She made five birdies in a two-under 70 to share 12th place behind Hyo Joo Kim on level par.
Kim also shot 70 to lead by a shot from South Africa’s Lee-Anne Pace on four-under.
Lauren Walsh was 32nd on three over after a 72, with Anna Foster 48th on five over after a 74.
In the Epson Tour’s Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic in Scottsdale, Sara Byrne is six shots off the lead in joint 27th with a round to play at TPC Scottsdale.
She was three under for her second round with eight holes to play, but bogeyed the second (her 11th) and double bogeyed the par-five eighth to shoot a level par 71.
Japan’s Minori Nagano, Colombia’s Valery Plata, and China’s Liqi Zeng share the lead on eight under.
