NAPLES, Fla. — Lexi Thompson and Wyndham Clark shared the lead Friday with Charley Hull and Michael Brennan, each groups making solely three pars within the scramble format as every posted a 17-under 55 to set the scoring report within the Grant Thornton Invitational.
Scoring circumstances have been preferrred at Tiburon Golf Membership, and the format allowed for it.
Brennan, who began the yr on the PGA Tour of Americas and received the Financial institution of Utah Championship on an exemption, was filling in for Daniel Berger. Brennan and Hull went 13 straight holes with a birdie or an eagle. They needed to accept pars on the sixteenth and 18th holes.
“It is fairly humorous as a result of truly I used to be altering my swing final week and I come on Tuesday and I couldn’t even hold the ball on the planet. So I used to be truly fairly nervous in the present day,” Hull mentioned. “Truly, it labored out fairly properly.”
Thompson and Clark made birdie or eagle on 9 of the final 10 holes, the one exception approaching the par-3 sixteenth.
“I really feel like we form of have comparable video games,” Clark mentioned. “She hits it actually far off the tee, and if one in all us is in play, we’re considerably previous form of the opponents and we now have our benefit there.”
The 55 broke by one the report on the mixed-team occasion that started three years in the past.
That they had a two-shot lead over Lauren Coughlin and Andrew Novak. Rose Zhang and Michael Kim, Nelly Korda and Denny McCarthy, and Jennifer Kupcho and Chris Gotterup have been three behind.
The format shifts to foursomes for Saturday, probably the most tough of the codecs as a result of just one golf ball is in play as gamers alternate hitting photographs. The ultimate spherical Sunday is modified fourballs.
Defending champions Jake Knapp and Patty Tavatanakit have been 7 below by six holes and performed the final seven holes in 5 below. That they had a 59 and have been 4 photographs behind.
