BEACH PONTE VEDRA, Fla. – Paul Casey was asked to describe his relationship with TPC Sawgrass – complex, contrived, pained?
“Keep going,” he said with a laugh after the third round of 67 which lifted him to a tie for fifth place and one round away from the best show he ever did in a famous PGA Tour event.
In a dozen starts at the Players Championship, the Englishman has missed the cut or withdrawn eight times and has only one top-10 finish, in 2004 when he made his debut. his tour of the Stadium Course.
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“[TPC Sawgrass architect Pete Dye] being very annoying with his designs, and one of his things was to always be scared, intimidating the players on the tee, ”said Casey. “It can be scary and intimidating at times but nonetheless very generous when you get there. It is a beautiful, fine architecture, but I have had a terrible relationship with it at times. ”
This Saturday ‘s tour was a snapshot of his history at TPC Sawgrass. Casey scored the second hole in par-5 and added three birdies before turning but struggled with three bogs through the first five holes of the second nine before ending his day with a birdie at the 18th.th toll.
“Knock on nine, didn’t you?” ”He said. “And then he put things up a little behind nine, but that’s the way this golf course is. You are always on the gloomy edge of disaster. ”