Fellow Irishman Shane Lowry and Graeme McDowell were upbeat post their second round in jumping into the over-taking lane and making their presence felt over the weekend rounds of the WGC – Cadillac Championship.
Lowry, as the reigning WGC – Bridgestone Invitational champion, reckons there’s a low weekend score coming despite a second round 73 for a level par tally.
The current World No. 23 sandwiched an eighth hole birdie in between bogeys at his fifth and ninth holes before ending birdie, where he holed a 12-footer, but bogeyed his last from a greenside bunker.
Graeme McDowell presents the official scorer in his group with an autographed golf ball.
And if Lowry is move higher up the board it will be thanks to shortest club in his bag.
“The putter feels great in my hands and I feel like I am going to hole nearly every putt,” he said in a round that included 29 putts.
“But then it was disappointing to bogey the last as par would have been great, and I would be standing here at one under.
“And the good thing is my back-up driver, and after I cracked the face of the old one on Wednesday is really performing well as I only missed three fairways today.”
And Graeme McDowell had a smile on his face birding his 16th and 17th holes in a score of 71 to get back to one over par.
“I hit the golf ball really really well,” McDowell said. “I got off to a slow start and then the last 13 or 14 holes I hit the ball beautifully.
“The putter has been eluding me slightly and I’ve hit a lot of great putts that haven’t gone in. It’s just been one of those days on the greens.”
