Patrick Cantlay began with an eagle and never let anyone close to him the rest of the round Friday. He shot a 6-under 65 to build a five-shot lead at the Genesis Invitational going into a weekend that won’t include Tiger Woods.
Woods made another early exit, this one because of flu symptoms instead of his injured body. He withdrew after six holes and spent the next two hours getting intravenous fluids before leaving Riviera, along with a big chunk of the gallery.
The big excitement belonged to Will Zalatoris, who had a 70 that only looked ordinary on the scorecard. Zalatoris had five bogeys and four birdies, along with a hole-in-one on the 14th hole. This ace came with a car, not only for Zalatoris but for caddie Joel Stock.
No I mean I saw it um obviously wasn’t himself just just didn’t look right um saw that before before the round started so it sucks it’s obviously everything’s better with with him there and for him for his first turnament back and he couldn’t come out and finish the way he
Wanted to um that’s that sucks for all of us when you say you saw it I guess like what did you see it just didn’t look right just didn’t look right he he was quieter um you know and obviously it’s cut day out here we’re all trying
To trying to play well we’re all trying to especially the whole group’s trying to focus and pick ourselves up and play well but uh yeah it was I feel bad for him um he wasn’t right he definitely was trying to fight through it and uh I hope
He’s all right did you say anything yesterday Gary not feeling well no um you we didn’t talk about that we were talking you know I hadn’t seen him in a while so we we’re catching up on a lot of stuff um but like I said it’s unfortunate because
You want to go out the way on you want the game to talk and unfortunately he wasn’t able to do that and I feel for him cuz I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him so um I hope hope he gets back but his game looks his game looked right
I mean his putting was nice speeds up for sure um so his game’s going to be in a good spot yeah well these These are greens I feel really comfortable on you know I’ve played the golf course a ton of times and they’re in great shape uh probably
The best I’ve ever seen them so if you get them online and get them with the right speed they’re going to go in yeah uh I think it was 180 pin back into the wind and we were just trying to hit it um kind of right in the middle of
That gap between the two bunkers and I just pulled it about 10 feet and it landed perfectly in The Fringe and killed it and uh lucky to go in so it was uh a nice little bonus yeah I mean it was a perfect number for
A seven just a little bit of hurt um you know pulled it just a touch but it was tracking the whole way so one of those ones where you’re kind of eyeing up and down the pin the whole time and then when the crowd went crazy we kind of went crazy too
