Zurich Classic 2023 standings, scores: Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele torch field in Round 2
The teams battled harder weather and format Friday at TPC Louisiana in Round 2 of the Zurich Classic. However, a familiar team appeared with the lead, and a than The familiar team easily passed the round of the day when entering a dispute after 36 holes of play.
After a normal start on Thursday, Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele managed to ignite the whole affair on Friday by rotating record 63 shots. One 63! In the alternative shot! The second best score of the day was 66, and the defending champions made 10 (ten!) 3s during their round.
We’ll take a closer look at their round, as well as another great round from leaders Wyndham Clark and Beau Hossler below.
Leaders
T1. Wyndham Clark/Beau Hossler (-16)
Clark and Hossler settled on Friday after their 61 in the first round. They shot 67 in the 2nd Half, didn’t have any bogeys and are currently leading the field by two strokes in the final two days of play. If it weren’t for the ridiculous Cantlay-Schauffle numbers from Friday, Clark and Hossler would have been at the center of a conversation that lasted through Saturday.
Now the question is whether they can maintain the lead for the next 36 holes.
“I think when we play in a format like this, if we can play a round the way we do every time, we will be delighted,” Hossler said. “It’s just a pretty low pressure ball on tee, the ball on or around the green is in a pretty good position and has a legit birdie or a pretty easy par.
“I think we’re in a great position. I like our mentality,” he continued. “After a few rounds of scrims and the first two rounds, I started to see and feel comfortable with each other’s play, and the more points that I could put him in, the green light and vice versa, obviously. is that we will be better. is.”
other candidates
T2. Doc Redman-Sam Ryder, Keith Mitchell-Sungjae Im (-15)
T4. Xander Schauffele-Patrick Cantlay, Martin Trainer-Chad Ramey, Sean O’Hair-Brandon Matthews, Matthew NeSmith-Taylor Moore, Nick Hardy-Davis Riley (-14)
The numbers given are astounding. Schauffele and Cantlay have won nearly eight strokes on the court with their average points at the end of the game between 70 and 71. They beat John Daly and David Duval by 20. Nearly three touchdowns. Here are a few other numbers from the round:
Cantlay said: “I think Xander is really good and I can play well too. “So when we have two players together, it’s really good and I think it’s going to help us become friends, but when you have two world-class players playing together and both we all have a day like today, we can post a low one.”
The duo, who won last year’s event and set a four-ball scoring record (59) and overall for the week (-29), looked disappointed with their 67 yesterday, leaving them six strokes behind the leaders today. Last year, they opened 59-68 and were 17 years younger to get to Round 3 before hitting 60 of the four balls to end the tournament. This year, they are three times worse (although they achieve very different numbers) but there is still a lot of controversy.
When asked what they’re going to do for the encore tomorrow after today’s 63rd, they seem pretty excited to go back there.
“We want to hit that 59 again in the best game,” Cantlay said. “We will try.”
Different type of record
Unfortunately, Daly and Duval set another kind of record on Friday when they fired an 11 out of 83 in an alternate shot to miss the cut. They went home in the 45th minute with three doubles and three bogeys before going home with a more respectable 38 for 83. It was, however, the worst shot of the round with eight strokes at their time. finished round two, and they were 14 years old. beat the team in second to last place.
