Charlotte
\nAnirban Lahiri repaired a shaky start with a composed finish to card a modest 1-over 72 for a share of the 33rd spot on the opening day of the 99th PGA Championships.<\/p>\n
He struck two birdies in the last three holes on a golf course that was not playing easy by any means. Lahiri was at one stage, three-over after eight holes yesterday.<\/p>\n
That he managed to hang in and finish at 1-over 72 gave him ample confidence that he was in for better things in the second round when he plays in the morning.<\/p>\n
Dane Thorbjorn Olesen shot a 4-under 67 in the morning to take the lead and in the afternoon wave, Kevin Kisner holed three birdies in the last five holes to join him in shared lead.<\/p>\n
Kisner finished with a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole. Jordan Spieth, seeking a career Grand Slam, struggled on the greens during his 72 and Rory McIlroy ended with the same score after being one-under at the turn.<\/p>\n
McIlroy was done in by a bogey and double bogey at the 13th and the 14th and both were tied-33rd.<\/p>\n
Lahiri said, \u201cFrankly I played solid but it was only in the second nine that I got going. I had a shaky start but as the round progressed things became better. The greens were a lot slower than what I expected, but they were firmer as they had dried up. I ended up leaving a lot of putts short. I really struggled with the speed of the greens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking of his misses, Lahiri explained, \u201cOn the second nine (the front side of the course) I missed two makeable putts from short distances like from six feet on the fifth (for par) and from five feet on the eighth for birdie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Charlotte Anirban Lahiri repaired a shaky start with a composed finish to card a modest 1-over 72 for a share of the 33rd spot on the opening day of the 99th PGA Championships. He struck two birdies in the last three holes on a golf course that was not playing easy by any means. Lahiri […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}