TRUCKEE, Calif. — Ben Silverman birdied seven of his final 9 holes and scored 19 factors to take the lead Thursday within the Barracuda Championship, the one PGA Tour occasion that makes use of the modified Stableford scoring system.
Silverman had 10 birdies and a bogey on Tahoe Mountain Membership’s tree-lined Outdated Greenwood format for a two-point lead over Kelly Kraft.
“This place is attractive,” mentioned Silverman, the 36-year-old Canadian searching for his first PGA Tour victory. “Actually like this golf course.”
Gamers obtain eight factors for a double eagle, 5 for eagle and two for birdie. A degree is deducted for bogey and three for double bogey.
“You attempt to put the factors out of your head and simply deal with making birdies and including up your rating regular,” Silverman mentioned. ”You get rewarded for birdies and the factors type of maintain themselves. That’s the way you attempt to do it.”
Kraft eagled the par-5 third and had seven birdies and two bogeys.
“I used to be simply in scoring and the man advised me what I shot, and I used to be like, `I don’t know what I shot. I simply know I had 17 factors.’” Kraft mentioned. “You’re type of simply attempting to make birdies the entire time.”
Nate Lashley was third at 15, and Sam Ryder and S.H. Kim had 14. Lorenzo Scalise of Italy, considered one of 50 European tour gamers within the area, was at 13 with Patrick Fishburn and Vince Whaley.
With three weeks left within the FedExCup common season, Lashley is 97th, Silverman one hundredth, Kim a hundred and tenth, Ryder a hundred and twentieth, Fisburn 139th, Whaley 167th and Kraft 172nd. The highest 70 will advance to the playoffs.
Taylor Pendrith – at No. 36, the highest-ranked participant within the FedExCup within the area – had a 12-point spherical. The Canadian gained at Colonial in Might for his first PGA Tour title.
