Frys.com meets the bubble boys in R1
Frys.com Open initiated play on Thursday at the CordeValle Golf Club. The event has occurred for the third consecutive time as the PGA Tour fall series is being held at San Jose for the first time. The 22 golfers competing in the field are all ranked between
the money list of 100 and 125 regarded as bubble boys.
The current competition has every player striving for a card to travel upwards in the money list and would either advance in their status for 2011 or gather various invites. The invites would be theirs if the golfers move up to the top 30 which will enable
them to play The Masters, the U.S. Open and several other invitationals next year.
The top thirty ranking is currently threatened by a 13th and a 12th ranked player, Bo Van Pelt and Tim Clark. Other than these two players, Rickie Fowler, J.B. Holmes, Charlie Wi and Ricky Barnes are also trying to enter the top 30.
They currently stand at position number 31, 32, 51 and 42.
The 31st, Fowler, played the same event in Grayhawk golf Course last year but unfortunately lost at the play-off. This year Fowler has been playing tremendously with a final round like the Ruder Cup. The twenty-one year old played from the US side and attained
4 birdie birdies in the last holes. Fowler’s birdies earned the American side hope for the match and a critical ½ point for survival.
Match Round one:
The round one of the match saw an amazing play by Rocco Mediate. The forty-six year old carded a 64 in total with a 7 under par along with an amazing hole-in-one. The round 1 held on Thursday witnessed the forty-six year old at the 3rd hole collecting
an eagle, 4 birdies at the front nine while the back nine managed to gift only one birdie to the forty-six year old. Mediate hit 12 out of 14 fairways, 16 greens and took the putter back only 27 times on Thursdays play.
Trailing behind Rocco mediate, Ryuji Imada, Bo Van Pelt and Paul Goydos are standing with a 6 under par.
The Bubble Boys, Micheal Letzig, Will MacKenzie, Shaun Micheel, Jamie Lovemark and John Mallinger are standing at a 5 under par. Letzig, MacKenzie and Mallinger rank 131, 116 and 141 in the ranking list.
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