Rested Rose roars into lead in Boston Fedex Cup event
NORTON, Mass. — Justin Rose missed the cut in the Fedex Cup playoffs opener and decided to make the most of it. He stayed home in the Bahamas for six days, opting out of the pro-am and not arriving to the Dell Technologies Championship until the evening for the opening round Friday.
And then he was off and running at TPC Boston.
On a breezy day that kept scoring unusually high, Rose putted for birdie on all but two holes and made his six birdies count by keeping bogeys off his card. Three birdies over his last four holes gave him a 6-under-par 65 and a one-shot lead.
Russell Knox and Abraham Ancer were one shot back with strong finishes.
Ancer, the first Mexican to reach the second stage of the Fedex Cup playoffs, finished on the front nine with four birdies over his last six holes.
Knox was in the middle of the pack until he holed a wedge from 109 yards for eagle on No. 15, hit a 6-iron on the par-3 16th that tumbled out of the right collar and rolled down the slope to 2 feet and then finished with a 15-foot birdie putt.
Tiger Woods was more about spinning his wheels en route to a 72.
In his first time back at TPC Boston in five years, Woods nearly hit the wrong club off the 10th tee to start his round because his caddie had the head covers on the wrong metals leaving the range.
At Portland, Ore., Georgia Hall shot a 9-under 63 to take a three-stroke lead in the Cambia Portland Classic and break the tournament 36-hole record at 15-under 129. Minjee Lee (68) was second, and first-round leader Marina Alex (71) fell into a tie with Megan Khang at four shots back.
At Calgary, Alberta, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Kirk Triplett each shot 6-under 64 to share a two-stroke first-round lead in the Shaw Charity Classic at Canyon Meadows. Canadian Rod Spittle, 63, competing in his final tour event,
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matched Esteban Toledo and Joe Durant at 66.
At Aarhus, Denmark, Christiaan Bezuidenhout of South Africa shot 7-under 65 for a 13-under 131 total, tying the 36-hole tournament record, to take a twostroke lead in the Made in Denmark tournament. Thorbjorn Olesen (69) made the cut on the number at 2-under 142, putting him in position to net the final qualifying spot for Europe’s Ryder Cup team.
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