Blades Brown has made the reduce 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 general, 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. Enjoying golf on a golf course like this, it’s exhausting to beat.”
Contemporary off a bogey on the sixteenth, Brown felt the cut-line stress whereas standing on the tee on the par-3 seventeenth. He pushed his method shot into the greenside bunker and wanted to rise up and right down to preserve his weekend hopes alive. A poor shot then adopted, however as Brown alluded to, he was in a position to 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 form of watching the reduce 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 blissful to get in with 5 [under].”
Brown’s final PGA Tour begin got here at The American Specific, the place he stumbled down the stretch and missed the reduce. He shot a back-nine 40 throughout his third spherical — The American Specific includes a 54-hole reduce. 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 a number of golf balls, engaged on his recreation, hoping that he wouldn’t make the identical mistake twice.
“I’m tremendous blissful to return down right here to Mexico and converse some Spanish,” Brown stated.
“I took Spanish 4 years in highschool, so I’m actually blissful I selected that over Latin. I’m having a lot enjoyable right here on the resort, and I can’t look forward to the following two days.”
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By way of. Observe him on X @jack_milko.
