Live From the PGA Championship(First Hour)
Friday, 8-10 p.m. ET
On the difficult conditions at The Ocean Course
Frank Nobilo: “It’s gonna really rip up the record books. This is the hardest round ever in PGA Championship history. The hardest round the players have played this year…These are the best players in the world, and they we’re beaten up considerably. They fought like men out there, when you consider their rounds were taking six hours…I was doing some math. 7,500 yards. If it was Usain Bolt, he would have gotten around here in about 12 minutes.”
On Phil Mickelson’s Second Round 71, moving him up to T-11
Nobilo: “That was a huge turnaround. It might only look like a two-shot turnaround from Thursday, but this morning, the breeze was every bit as strong as it was this afternoon.”
On Tiger Woods’ putting improvements this week
Brandel Chamblee: “All last week as I was watching, I just kept thinking to myself, ‘I don’t recall him – with the ball that far away – I don’t recall him putting very well in the past, or if ever, with the toe off of the ground.’ This week, just like that, he makes the change. 22 puts yesterday, 26 putts today. It was a completely different Tiger Woods.”
On Vijay Singh’s 3-under-par 69, tied for the lead going into the weekend
Nobilo: “I’ve never known anyone that has left nothing to chance. We say Tiger Woods works hard, I doubt anyone in the history of the game will work harder than Vijay Singh…He keeps going to the gym, he keeps thinking he is going to get better. He is a one-off. He really is.”
Nobilo: This was meant to be a year of transition, which it is. We talk about young guys and how the game is changing over. This event is crazy already because of the weather, John Daly popping his head up on the leaderboard yesterday, and you’ve got Mickelson, Ernie Els, Vijay and Tiger Woods. These are the guys that owned the last 15 years. “
-NBC Sports Group-
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