Colorado Springs, Colorado – Padraig Harrington has been looking for something to hopefully enter the last day of topsy-topy-turvy-turvy turvy broadmoor after he left a chip in the rough green and lost trust.
The 18th-digit bird’s 20th-digit chip is the trick. It provided Harrington with a leading part, a place in the final group and put him four years away from the U.S. winning the U.S. Senior Open for the second time.
Harrington’s chips on Saturday tied him with Stewart Cink and Mark Hensby’s tie, just like he headed for the day. Playing in the same threesome, the three finished with 8 shots in 202 in a 68-under 68. There was only one extra PEP in his footsteps and it was such a shot.
“It was very exciting, very good, I don’t have to hit the ball anymore,” Harrington said.
Thomas Bjorn’s one shot was one, his 66-year-old matched the best round of the day and set up a battle that seemed to be a four-man title.
Steve Flesch (67) was 3 shots underneath, while Steven Alker’s 66 left him under 3, tied with Miguel Angel Jiménez (68) and Paul Stankowski (67).
Billy Andrade (70) had another shot, and he broke down painfully after the 17th approached, but still somehow got the standard there. Given all the pain and confusion, this is a suitable picture, the wide reason for the tilt, especially when set for major training conditions.
“This is what you do in the last four or five holes, these holes are pretty tough and ask some big questions,” Bjorn said. “I’m sure tomorrow’s pin position will bring us more problems. That’s where you win the golf tournament.”
Hensby’s worst taste for the green is at 18. The gallery is still buzzing, the holes in Harrington, Australian, who, on Sunday, left a 6-foot birdie for the solo shot put. It curls hard to the right without reaching the hole.
Even so, Hensby made four more birds (and one eagle) to end the match on Day 3. In comparison, Cink has 13. Hunsby can comfort anyone who knows more than anyone how to hit the green from a long distance green “as opposed to trying to putt in Augusta Nation.”
“You can have a 5-foot ball that can break 2 feet,” Huntsby said. “People go, ‘ah,’ when you miss a 4-foot player, even if your goal is to be a cup outside the left edge and hopefully. But it’s fun.”
No putter than Cink illustrates this on 3rd 16. From above the green green, his bird tried to curl around the hole, about 30 feet from the flag, as the slopes of Mount Cheyenne caused huge losses.
Despite this, he did not make four birds and two tides rounds in a day filled with sunshine, clouds, wind, rain, and even a flash of lightning, which left the players away for half an hour.
and a height of 6,000 feet.
“We played some balls and we really don’t know what happens when the ball is in the air,” Sink said. “There’s a par 12 place on par 3, and it’s a 228-yard shot, and I hit eight irons. How did you think of this kind of thing?”
Cink and Hensby looked like they had finished the lead with Harrington, and then the Irish began to lose momentum in the last nine games.
The three-time main champion needed to play two chips deep in the third 12 and put the double bogey off the lead. Another bogey was on a 15-foot par putt pole, and at age 15 it curled in front of the hole.
“I certainly lost some trust in green,” Harrington said.
He sets a fabulous end point by hitting his T-shirt to the left of the fairway, setting up a fabulous end point with no choice but to cut the lake and greens on the lake.
But he turned the possible bogey into an unlikely birdie and promised himself a place in Sunday’s final group, where he would play against the same trio on Saturday (due to the weather). This will also mark his fourth consecutive day of tying with Cink.
“Yes, I do want to be the last group, and the only way I’m in the last group is to make that little bird,” Harrington said. “But just because you want something doesn’t mean you can. If it’s easy, we’ll be great.”
