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Matsuyama plays it safe at the long par-three 4th, sending his iron to the back-left portion of the green. He cradles a 60-foot putt to a couple of feet, and tidies up for a fine two-putt par. Schauffele can’t get up and down from the sand at the front, though, and it’s back-to-back bogeys for the Californian.
-11: Matsuyama (4)
-8: Zalatoris (6)
-6: Leishman (5), Schauffele (4)
-5: Rahm (13), Conners (6), Rose (5)
One of the shots of the week by Tony Finau! Admittedly it’s an absurd one, a low iron fizzed up towards the 7th green from under the branches down the right. His ball flies into the bunker, rears up into the air straight left, then rolls serenely on a huge left-to-right arc towards the pin. It nestles a couple of inches from the cup, and he kicks in for a comedic par. He’s -2.
