Power rolls into the mix for maiden PGA title

REVOLUTION

Meanwhile, with the European Tour hoping that GolfSixes will herald the start of a golfing revolution, it might be apt that the English pair will stride out on to the first tee at the Centurion club today with the song ‘I Predict A Riot’ blasting out.

Certainly, the sport will have witnessed nothing quite like the scene as Chris Wood and Andy Sullivan tee off this innovative weekend with their six-hole greensome-foursomes match against India.

This will merely be start of it, with pyrotechnics, longdriving competitions, 40-second shot-clocks warning the players of impending penalties for slow play and presenters such as Vernon Kay and Denise Van Outen interviewing the mic’d up competitors during their rounds.

Yet with a £1m purse on offer, the 16 two-men national teams will be taking it extremely seriously. As, of course, will the European Tour. The opening clash, itself, can be deemed as fitting, seeing as the Tour’s CEO Keith Pelley, has been unashamed in declaring that he is trying to find golf’s version of Twenty20 cricket. SEAMUS Power kept his nerve in trying conditions last night to put himself in contention for a maiden victory on the US PGA Tour.

The Waterford man carded a one-under-par 71 to go with his opening 68 at the Wells Fargo Championship to leave him on five-under par at the halfway stage and the joint clubhouse leader last night with American Billy Hurley.

Four birdies early on left him out on his own in front on sevenunder at one stage but two late bogeys, on 15 and 17, both caused by three-putts from distance, took the gloss off what was still an excellent day’s work.

First-round leader Francesco Molinari was among the later starters last night, along with Shane Lowry, as threatened storms in North Carolina caused delays in the second round.

Graeme McDowell, though, posted a second successive 71 for a two-under-par tally that keeps him within striking distance of the lead.