Tringale’s 61 tops Scottish Open
Cameron Tringale has played 331 times on the PGA Tour without winning. His career-best round of nineunder 61 might help him change that at a tournament run by the European Tour.
The Mission Viejo High product ran off six straight birdies to start the back nine at the Renaissance Club on Thursday and had a threeshot lead in the Scottish Open, the first European event co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour.
Former U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland saw work with putting coach Phil Kenyon pay off in his round of 64, the only one close to Tringale.
“I haven’t had a professional win on my own, and obviously Scotland is where golf started, so this place is special,” Tringale said.
And it was relatively benign, at least for Tringale. That wasn’t the case Thursday afternoon, when the average score was more than three shots higher.
Flags were crackling in 30 mph gusts that felt even stronger along the shores of the North Sea.
The low score from the afternoon was Kurt Kitayama at 66, and only five other players who faced the afternoon wind managed to break par.
Tringale had the lowest score of his PGA Tour career and matched the course record set three years ago by Bernd Wiesberger when the Renaissance played to a par 71.
Tringale, who has reached the Tour Championship only once in his 12 previous years on the PGA Tour, is having one of his better years. He missed a playoff at Torrey Pines by one shot and was a distant runner-up to Hideki Matsuyama in the Zozo Championship last fall.
Svensson (62) grabs lead at Barbasol
Adam Svensson had two eagles in a 10-under 62 to take a two-stroke lead in the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship.
Playing through temperatures in the 90s at Keene Trace, the Canadian eagled the par-five 15th and eighth holes. The first eagle came after his lone bogey on No. 14, and the second — on a 31-foot putt — gave him the lead.
Ricardo Gouveia of Portugal and Robin Roussel of France each shot 64. Gouveia is making his second PGA Tour start.
Cejka has late surge in Senior Players
Alex Cejka birdied two of the final three holes for a sixunder 64 and a two-stroke lead in the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship.
Cejka birdied the parthree seventh and par-four ninth to cap a bogey-free round on Firestone Country Club’s South Course.