Blades Brown has made the minimize at a PGA Tour occasion for the primary time as knowledgeable.
The 17-year-old from Nashville, Tennessee, fired a 3-under 68 on Thursday and a 2-under 69 on Friday to complete at 5-under total, ok to make the weekend on the Mexico Open.
“I‘m so relieved,” Brown stated after.
“I had a couple of nine-footer for par on gap 17, and fortunately, that dropped. I’m tremendous grateful to be right here. Taking part in golf on a golf course like this, it’s laborious to beat.”
Recent off a bogey on the sixteenth, Brown felt the cut-line strain whereas standing on the tee on the par-3 seventeenth. He pushed his strategy shot into the greenside bunker and wanted to rise up and all the way down to hold his weekend hopes alive. A poor shot then adopted, however as Brown alluded to, he was capable of make the save. He then went on to birdie the par-5 18th to lock in a Saturday morning tee time.
“I used to be type of watching the minimize line simply to see what it was going to be,” Brown stated.
“I knew that it was going to be wherever round 3 or 4 [under], and I used to be completely satisfied to get in with 5 [under].”
Brown’s final PGA Tour begin got here at The American Categorical, the place he stumbled down the stretch and missed the minimize. He shot a back-nine 40 throughout his third spherical — The American Categorical encompasses a 54-hole minimize. This poor stretch included a double-bogey on the well-known par-3 seventeenth on the Pete Dye Stadium Course. He discovered the water off the tee.
Since then, Brown has hit plenty of golf balls, engaged on his recreation, hoping that he wouldn’t make the identical mistake twice.
“I’m tremendous completely satisfied to return down right here to Mexico and converse some Spanish,” Brown stated.
“I took Spanish 4 years in highschool, so I’m actually completely satisfied I selected that over Latin. I’m having a lot enjoyable right here on the resort, and I can’t await the subsequent two days.”
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By means of. Comply with him on X @jack_milko.
