Congratulations to Jeff Hull on a tremendous accomplishment. To 'come off the bench' -- no, make that to come out of the grandstands! -- and make the cut in Nationwide Tour event (one that included 35 PGA TOUR winners) is really special.
For the record, Jeff fired rounds of 68-76-77-79=300 on the longest course ever played in PGA-sanctioned event. And, I might add, under some of the toughest conditions. Here
is an exerpt from the pgatour.com's story:
"With the par-72 Kinderlou Forest Golf Club already playing at 7,781 yards, the last thing the 70 players who made the cut this week needed to see on Sunday were wind gusts reaching 35 mph. But that is exactly what they got, with the windy conditions forcing the stroke average to 75.229 during the final round. "
I'll let Jeff tell more about it in a post of his own, but I can assure you that they were brutal. There was only one sub-70 score on Sunday -- a 69 by winner John Kimbell -- and a glance at the weekend scores tellls you all you need to know about what the players were up against.
As usual, regardless of conditions, putting told much of the tale. Winner Kimbell also led the field in putting, averaging 26.8 putts per round. Our Hero averaged 30.5. Jeff's figure included an average of 2.0 per GIR on Friday (32 total) and 2.2 per GIR on Sunday (34 total). Unless you're nailing those Par 5s in two -- tough to do when they are averaging over 600 yards! -- that doesn't make for many birdies.
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