Cliff Kresge gets into contention at the Web.com Tour’s Mylan Classic
Cliff Kresge continued his great form of his game off the tee to the green, to get into contention at the Web.com Tour’s Mylan Classic, at the Southpointe Golf Club in Canonsburg.
Heading into the weekend, he ranks in the top-20s in both the driving accuracy and greens in regulation. However, he believes that his putter is the main reason behind his strong performance during the past few weeks.
"My ball striking has been fair," Kresge said. "My chipping and putting have been great. That's the key. You can't score with your long game, you've got to score with your short game and I've been able to do that the last couple of days”.
Right from the start of the season, he was struggling and missed the cut 10 times in his first 14 appearances. Afterwards, he worked on his overall playing technique and posted some good scores on the leaderboards.
"In my last six or seven tournaments I've put some better scores on the board," he said. "I've been putting a lot of time and effort in and I'm starting to see the fruits of my labor”.
Standing on the eighth tee on the second day in Pennsylvania, he was equal-par for the round. He got off to a perfect start and found the fairway on his first shot.
In a bid to reach the green on the second shot, he found the water hazard, present at the left side of the green. After accepting a one-stroke penalty, he chipped in the ball for a birdie from 20 feet, which in the initial moments seemed to end in the form
of a bogey.
"It was an easy shot and I had a great lie," he said. "You're thinking about chipping it in but you don't always do that”.
The back nine of the course also witnessed him play some remarkable shots and he signed his score card with a 31 in the end.
In total, he recorded seven birdies against a lone bogey for a six-under par 65. His final score at the end of two rounds was an 11-under par 131.
Brad Fritsch, in the meantime, posted a 7-under par 64 and led the two rounds with a 12-under par 130.
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