PGA Tour pro forced to hit 4-straight tee shots, drops 90 leaderboard spots 

Will Gordon teed off. 

Then he teed disconnected again. 

Then he teed disconnected again. 

Then he teed disconnected again. That 1 recovered the fairway.

When his 15th spread astatine El Cardonal astatine Diamante was vanished connected Friday, Gordon had incurred 3 punishment strokes aft three-straight bad boy drives, and he carded a septuple-bogey 11 connected the 462-yard par-4. Three holes later, he signed for a six-over 78 aft the 2nd information of the PGA Tour’s World Wide Technology Championship, putting him successful a necktie for 102nd, a driblet of 90 spots from wherever he sat (tied for 12th) aft shooting a 69 during the first round. 

It wasn’t instantly clear wherever Gordon’s tee shots ended up — the Tour’s online leaderboard conscionable noted “from tee box” and “penalty.” On his 4th tee shot, and seventh changeable overall, he recovered the fairway, past deed strokes 8 and 9 from the fairway, his 10th connected the green, and his 11th recovered the hole. All of it was portion of a bumpy scoring time for the 28-year-old pro — he bookended his 11 pinch a brace of birdies and had 5 successful all, but he besides had 2 bogeys and a double bogey. 

Notably, Gordon was 1 of 23 players whose second-round people was higher than their first round, arsenic conditions improved, chiefly the wind. (In total, the scoring mean connected Thursday was 72.396, and the scoring mean connected Friday was 69.623.) The trim was group astatine players who were two-under aliases better, and Gordon vanished astatine three-over. 

After second-round play, players interviewed noted the conditions change. 

Said Austin Eckroat: “Yeah, you almost get utilized to having the upwind arsenic a backboard, but past coming retired present coming and person thing erstwhile we started is decidedly much comfortable.”

Said Maverick McNealy: “Yeah, it was a wholly different play course. We were joking that yesterday I deed a 3-wood disconnected the tee connected 18, was betwixt 6- and 7-iron, and coming was driver, 3-wood to the beforehand edge. So wholly different course. You’re seeing different bunkers and different landing areas. Even the greens play wholly different. Like 15 pinch the upwind disconnected the correct yesterday was a mini target and coming felt for illustration you could deed successful a 30-yard-wide vessel and it would extremity up successful the aforesaid spot.”

Said Carson Young: “Yeah, the upwind decidedly helps. Less upwind retired of a somewhat different guidance made the people a small spot easier. Was capable to scope immoderate par-5s aliases get person up to them.”

Said Max Greyserman: “Yeah, measurement little wind. At times, it’s beautiful minimal. It was gettable retired there, a batch of birdies to beryllium had and if you played good and executed, you could spell beautiful low. I saw personification changeable 61, truthful not surprising. You’ve conscionable sewage to make a batch of birdies retired here. It’s a reasonably easy people if you execute. I’m judge astatine the aforesaid time, deed a bad thrust and beryllium retired of play aliases not make putts, but it’s retired there.”