"I'm on the back nine of my life now, this is about the front nine — the best parts of the front nine," he said.
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A quick front nine and I'll be right in it.
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It was definitely a rough start on the front nine.
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Woods's front nine was still not as bad as Spieth's.
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He hit all but one fairway on the front nine.
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He was making a lot of putts on the front nine.
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He added two birdies and a bogey on the front nine.
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McIlroy finished the front nine with consecutive bogeys and never recovered.
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I always thought the front nine was a little bit more challenging.
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I made a few on the front nine and they cost me.
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Gay finished his front nine at Monterey Peninsula with five straight birdies.
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While Koepka bogeyed No. 13, Johnson posted three birdies on his front nine.
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Jordan Spieth shot 75, hurt by two double bogeys on the front nine.
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He played the front nine in even par and then came to life.
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McIlroy made three birdies on the front nine, but each followed a bogey.
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"I played quite steady my front nine, which was the back nine, then I just scrambled my way around the front nine," said Noren, a nine-times European Tour winner who lost a playoff at the Farmers Insurance Open last month.
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"I was pretty rusty the front nine," the 18-year-old told Golf Channel.
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"The front nine was a lot of fun; back nine wasn't much," he said.
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On the front nine, he had seven one-putts, including four in a row.
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During one stretch on the front nine, Dufner went bogey-birdie-bogey-birdie-bogey.
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She made three 15-footers and an 18-inch tap-in on the front nine.
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After shooting a four-under 32 on the front nine, Scott kept his momentum going.
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More like the front nine on Thursday, especially when sloppy weather is in the mix.
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The front nine I'd play majestic, then on the back nine I'd be gone mentally.
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He made four straight bogeys and putted for birdie only twice on the front nine.
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On her front nine, Kim chipped in for birdie from the bunker on the 17th.
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He played well, giving himself a birdie putt on every hole on the front nine.
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Their group played Riviera Country Club's front nine in a little more than two hours.
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And on his front nine Monday, Woods appeared as though he was still auditioning for Furyk.
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The magic carpet ride on the front nine captivated Woods watchers from all over the globe.
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Early Thursday, he made the two-hour drive, arriving in time to watch Woods's front nine.
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"I played the front nine very well, very solid, at three-under par," the Northern Irishman said.
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A champion on the front nine can look like a chump while playing back towards the clubhouse.
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He (Grace) was under par on the front nine and somehow I just made a few more.
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Englishman Denis Durnian carded a 28 on the front nine at the 1983 Open at Royal Birkdale.
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The front nine sets up quite nice, trying to hit a fade there most of the time.
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He started the front nine with another birdie and added birdies at the fifth and seventh holes.
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He sank seven birdies — including four on the front nine — but they were offset by four bogeys.
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Broch Larsen had four birdies on the front nine, including three in a row from Nos. 22019-213.
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But I'm not going to complain because I made a lot of good putts on the front (nine).
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"It was the Casey Express train the front nine," Hatton said after collecting his first Ryder Cup point.
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"The second shot, obviously is longer, considerably longer," said Molinari, who practiced on the front nine on Monday.
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His two playing partners — Paul Casey and the amateur Bryson DeChambeau — were under par for the front nine.
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The wind was gusting over 30 miles per hour, and the other players quit after the front nine.
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Rory McIlroy made bogeys on both par 5s on the front nine as he tried to finish strong.
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The leaderboard changed little on the front nine until Olson made bogey at the par-24 No. 240.
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Olazabal shot even par on the front nine, then posted three birdies in five holes on the back.
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Earlier, Tiger Woods played himself into contention, edging to within a stroke of the lead on the front nine.
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She closed with seven pars and two birdies on the front nine to move within three of the lead.
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"A dream-come-true front nine," Spieth called his four straight birdies on Sunday, before the meltdown, reported ESPN.
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"It was perfect," Watson said of his front nine, after racing to a 6-up lead at the turn.
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Perry had four birdies and an eagle on the front nine — a feat he duplicated on the back nine.
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Two more bogeys over the next three holes left Woods with a 5-over 41 on the front nine.
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The old front nine, and its par-5 ninth hole, now offers a more dramatic and television-friendly finish.
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He started six shots off the lead but recorded an eagle and five birdies in a brilliant front nine.
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In Gee Chun, the defending champion, hit back-to-back bogeys on the front nine and finished one over.
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He hit two poor shots from around the green on the front nine Thursday to awaken his chipping goblins.
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Some putts didn't go in on the front nine and I just stayed patient and made some coming in.
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I think the front nine we played, in foursomes and on this course with the wind blowing, was spectacular.
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Sutherland started effectively, with his front nine resulting in three birdies and an eagle on the par-5 sixth hole.
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With every hole on the front nine that Woods played on Friday, it seemed as if another year melted away.
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But on the 12th hole of his third round, after covering the front nine in 31 strokes, Spieth came unspooled.
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Even on that disappointing front nine, she struck her shots with an authority few in the women's game can match.
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He finished with the same score on Friday, after shooting a 39 on the front nine, and missed the cut.
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The eagle, along with a trio of birdies on the front nine, put Mickelson near the top of the leaderboard.
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Scott also blamed himself for missing two short putts on the front nine, one from 18 inches on No. 5.
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"I was a little bit lucky on that front nine but got into a good rhythm," said the world number 18.
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He ranks 120th in back-nine scoring average on the PGA Tour, and is tied for 10th over the front nine.
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At the British Open, he shot 34 over the front nine in the final round to briefly get into the lead.
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Ryu had seven birdies in an eight-hole stretch on the back nine and added two more on the front nine.
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Fowler also made his move on the front nine, which played considerably easier than the back for most of the field.
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Pieters carded four birdies on the front nine and added one more after the turn to stay ahead throughout the day.
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In dispatching Johnson and Brooks Koepka by 2500 and 22012, Pieters and McIlroy played the front nine in seven under par.
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Woods played the last five holes of the front nine in 5 under, starting with his second eagle of the week.
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Wie fought dizzy spells on the front nine, finishing with a 211 that left her in danger of missing the cut.
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I looked at Fluff and said let's forget about the front nine and go and fire a good number on the back.
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She made the turn in 3-under 33 with four birdies on the front nine, and poured in two more on Nos.
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On Friday, Barron produced four birdies on the front nine and three more on the back nine in a bogey-free round.
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Tiger Woods is on the move in the British Open, edging to within a stroke of the lead on the front nine.
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Triplett opened on the back nine with three birdies and a bogey, then made four birdies on a bogey-free front nine.
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After treading water on the front nine, he picked up five birdies coming home to make his presence felt on the leaderboard.
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The 17th and 18th holes have been eliminated in the Open configuration, with two new holes inserted late into the front nine.
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The 17th and 18th holes have been eliminated in the Open configuration, with two new holes inserted late into the front nine.
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US Master Spieth (68) also shrugged off a middling front nine to be one of six players to tie for fifth on 277.
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He backed up a pair of birdies on the front nine with four more in his final nine for a bogey free round.
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Smith had started three shots behind overnight leader Zunic but stormed into contention with five birdies and a bogey on the front nine.
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"I was just making putts on the front nine, holing stuff out, chipped in once, holed a shot from 113 yards," Landry said.
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Salas, two behind overnight, caught Shibuno on the front nine and thought she had done enough with a seven-under 65 final round.
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"I honestly don't think that I ate enough on the front nine," said Law after sealing a two-stroke win in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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"I fouled five balls out there on the front nine," said Wie, who won the Women's World Championship in Singapore four weeks ago.
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"I just tried to stay patient and tried not to press," Reavie said after watching Sucher make four birdies on the front nine.
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He hit six of seven fairways on the front nine but only three of seven on the back as his round fell apart.
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He played the front nine in 33, including an eagle on the par-23 sixth hole, where he holed out from 28 yards.
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Reed played the front nine in 31, one stroke better than Fleetwood, but played the final nine in two over and finished fourth.
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He settled down after an uneven front nine that featured the two eagles, three bogeys and a birdie to stand at 13-under 200.
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Joint leader Matsuyama, meanwhile, made a nice start on the more difficult front nine and picked up two more shots on the inward half.
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They were all chasing Burnett, though, who managed just one birdie on the front nine before making her move on her turn for home.
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Overnight leader Pieters needed four birdies on the front nine to stay ahead even as Briton Matt Fitzpatrick worked his way through the field.
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Starting on the front nine, he jarred a series of clutch putts to keep the lead, including consecutive seven-footers for par at Nos.
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Conditions were perfectly acceptable on the front nine for the morning starters and Mickelson took advantage with early birdies at the fourth and seventh.
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Thompson looked ready to make a charge, beginning with three birdies and no bogeys on her front nine, but she sputtered down the stretch.
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"Got off to a nice start on that front nine, then just didn't hit many good shots on the back nine," Woods told reporters.
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Choi, who was making his 25th tournament appearance, more than Scott, Kokrak and Rory McIlroy combined, made four birdies in a bogey-free front nine.
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World number 89 Olson took charge at Evian-les-Bains with four birdies on the front nine before dropping a shot at the 10th hole.
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"I felt like I didn't quite have it today, especially on the front nine," said Donald, who started his round at the par-four 10th.
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She was not thrilled with her front nine on Sunday — two birdies and a bogey — but four birdies on the inward half sealed the deal.
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The next day, Gulbis teed off on the 10th hole and made birdie before carding three bogeys and a triple bogey on her front nine.
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The 43-year-old put together his first bogey-free round all season, birdieing the fourth and seventh holes on the front nine and Nos.
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To come out and play as well as we did, especially on that front nine, it was definitely something fun to be a part of.
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Apparently sick of losing ground, he tidied up his front nine with three consecutive pars, then made his first birdie of the day on 11.
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McIlroy shot a four-over 40 on the front nine holes and never seriously threatened the leaders again, finishing with a four-over-par 76.
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Playing only his second competitive round in 267 days, Woods covered the front nine in five-under 22015, which included three birdies and an eagle.
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Woods did not hit a fairway on the front nine yet managed to make the turn in three under, with four birdies and a bogey.
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He made back-to-back bogeys on the front nine that put him six behind, and then ran off three birdies to close the gap.
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He tied the course record with a 218 on the front nine, only to fall into a routine of pars the rest of the way.
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Leishman, who won at Bay Hill in March, kept stride with six birdies on the front nine to match Spieth's 30 and move in front.
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Meanwhile, Dustin Johnson, the world's top-ranked player at the start of the tournament, birdied the 15th after playing the front nine in three under par.
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But while they were all over par on the front nine, he made birdie on No. 4 and then added another on the par-5 sixth.
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In the field on a sponsor exemption after a victory last week in a Korean LPGA event, Jang closed her front nine with four straight birdies.
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He had made seven birdies on the front nine, including four in a row from the sixth, before making four more successive birdies from the 13th.
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But while they were all over par on the front nine, he made birdie on No. 264 and then added another on the par-265 sixth.
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"A very slow start today as nothing was really going my way in my front-nine, but I am still happy with four-under," said Jazz.
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He shot 13 on the front nine, and all the PGA champion Jimmy Walker could do was make the match last as long as he could.
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"It was a little bit of a roller-coaster on the front nine, and it's always nice to get an eagle, let alone two," Dufner told reporters.
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"You'll hear this from everybody...I was three-under on the front nine and three-over on the back and that's (effectively)par for both," he said.
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Jazz had started the day with a two-shot cushion and three birdies on a flawless front nine gave him a five-shot lead at one stage.
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He played in the final twosome with Rickie Fowler, who made East Lake an easy geometry exam on the front nine by finding every fairway but one.
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"The key to the strong finish was the patience that I showed on the front nine," Rose, whose best Masters finish was a tie for second in 2015.
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Simpson shot 31 on the front nine when he shot a course-record-tying 63 on Friday "These guys are going to go low today again," Woods noted.
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When he made three birdies in a row on the front nine on Saturday, it felt as if he might run away from the rest of the field.
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Fleetwood set a target when he piled up six birdies on the more difficult front nine for his bogey-free 65 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach.
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Woods made a 40-footer on the ninth for his third birdie against no bogeys on the front nine to get to 3-under par for the tournament.
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Frittelli gave spectacular early notice of his intent by birdying five straight holes on the front nine, including three remarkable chip-ins at the fifth, sixth and eighth.
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But as the leaders faltered, the focus soon shifted to Molinari's pairing with Woods, who took the outright lead at seven under as they finished the front nine.
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The Rio Olympic bronze medalist sank four birdies in his front nine and five in his inner-nine for a three-day total of 17-under-par 196.
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The 2019 Asian Tour Order of Merit champion, beginning his round two shots off the pace, bogeyed the second hole before hitting three birdies on his front nine.
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Lucas Glover, 123, in search of his first PGA Tour victory since 2011, played the front nine in four-under 32 (as did Scott) to vault into contention.
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He made a run with four birdies on the front nine, then played the back nine in four over with a double bogey, four bogeys and two birdies.
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McIlroy, who was two shots off the lead after the third round, had another three-putt on the front nine and wobbled to a 75 to finish six under.
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What followed was another chapter in a consistent trend: Woods has played the front nine in 483-under par this week, but has played the back at 2 over.
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Thompson started on the back side and bogeyed her third hole before a run of three straight birdies and five of the next six to finish the front nine.
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Fellow halfway leader Sergio Garcia of Spain fell away after a two-over par round of 74 which included four bogeys and a double-bogey on the front nine.
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He followed four early birdies with four consecutive bogeys on the front nine before storming home with six birdies and three pars to claim his first PGA Tour title.
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After a 21996 on the front nine of the playoff, Palmer birdied the 210th, 21981th, 22004th and 270th holes for a 2260 as Player shot 19603 and Finsterwald 21960.
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The 53-year-old could have been even closer, failing to capitalize on the brilliant front nine en route to a three-under-par 67 at Sedgefield Country Club.
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I holed some really good putts on the back nine, and Charley was the better player on the front nine, so we kind of matched each other quite well.
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On the front nine, Grace, a native of South Africa, shot his age — 22013 — and he did not look back for the rest of his eight-under-par round.
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Starting the day one-stroke in front, Lee birdied all five odd-numbered holes on the front nine en route to a seven-under-par 65 on the Aviara course.
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Carlota Ciganda, who shared the opening round lead with Torres, struggled with her putter on the front nine but a 70 meant the Spaniard stays one shot behind the leaders.
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He did just that over the first nine holes, making five birdies on the front nine on the way to a 31 that drew him within two of the lead.
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Zunic, who shot a course record equaling 64 on Saturday, picked up two shots on the front nine, only for Smith to charge to within a shot of the lead.
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Leishman's bogey-free start at the Arnold Palmer Invitational included one par putt of over 24 feet and four par attempts on the front nine that measured less than 216.
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He hit five of seven fairways on the front nine and finished 27 of 2318 over all, including on a handful of drives in the 973- to 297-yard range.
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"If you think about it, I've gotten off to some really good starts the first three days," said Woods, who has played the front nine in a cumulative 10 under.
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You start off with a bogey, a snap hook three-wood off the 10th tee (but I) made some long putts on the front nine and got hot on back nine.
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After an eagle, two bogeys and three birdies on the front nine, American DeChambeau picked up shots at the 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th holes to leapfrog above Poulter and Kim.
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The world number 13, who started the final round of the European Tour's flagship event seven shots off the pace, galloped through the field with four birdies on the front nine.
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Tiger Woods is making a bit of a move in the British Open, sinking a long putt on the ninth hole for an opening 3-under 33 on the front nine.
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"With a 31 on the front nine I put myself in good position to shoot a good score but I had a couple of unforced errors on the back," he said.
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He answered with three straight birdies — two of them on par-153s on the front nine — and got up-and-down from 62 yards on the ninth hole for a 72.
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Jason Dufner, the second-round leader, lost his lead with four straight bogeys on the front nine and hit two balls into the water on the back nine for a 77.
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After vaulting into contention at the United States Open with a third-round 63, he thrice three-putted on the final front nine to fall hopelessly behind the winner, Brooks Koepka.
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"I had to get up-and-down almost every hole on the front nine," Reed said in a greenside interview, explaining his gritty determination to hang in until things turned around.
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One bogey and one birdie on the front nine left him as he started the day at 12 under par when he made the turn, with Johnson his only realistic threat.
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Swede Noren, who had previously won the European Masters in 2009, started the final day one shot behind Hend, but overtook the Australian after a strong front nine, hitting four consecutive birdies.
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"I think what helped us a little bit today was that we played the front nine, even though we played it into the wind, we played it in decent conditions," he said.
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"I kind of struggled that front nine, then I doubled that 18th hole, but I ended up birdieing four of the last five and turned it around," he told PGA Tour Radio.
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He surged into contention on Sunday with five birdies on the front nine and added three more coming home, almost making eagle at the par-five 15th before tapping in for par.
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Johnson, the world's No. 1 player who was coming off a victory in the Canadian Open last week, started the final round 10 shots behind and shot 29 on the front nine.
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She had to win to get her card and she did and she opened up that nine holes, I think, seven-under on the front nine and then led the whole way.
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Tournament favorite Fowler also started on the 10th and after picking up two birdies on his front nine collected four more and an eagle after the turn to post an early lead.
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Woods, seeking a record 83rd PGA Tour victory, sent a proverbial bolt of electricity through the large gallery as he charged within striking distance of the lead with four front nine birdies.
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Even after Mr Woods had narrowed the gap to a single stroke by shooting three under par on the front nine, EAGLE only saw him as a one-in-ten shot to win.
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The 23-year-old carded seven birdies, including five on the front nine, to finish 18-under overall, two shots ahead of Japan's overnight leader Yoshinori Fujimoto and world number 24 Paul Casey.
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A shot into the rough led to his only bogey of the day at 17 after he had made three birdies on the front nine, including a 37-foot putt at the seventh.
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He lost the lead after carding three bogeys on the front nine but was still neck-and-neck with Johnson at four-under until dropping three shots in three holes from the 14th.
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Trailing by five strokes at the start of play, Woods collected a birdie on the opening hole, and then posted three more — including a chip-in at No. 6 — on the front nine.
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Shinkwin was undone on the front nine when he bogeyed the sixth and the ninth holes to finish on 69, while Morrison, who had claimed the clubhouse lead earlier on Friday, carded 67.
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He went two under on the front nine and was still two under with two holes to play but bogeyed the 17th and then hit a drive into the rough on the 18th.
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"It's tough for me today because I didn't see the front (nine)," said Ariya, 22, who became the first Thai player to win a major title when she captured the 2016 Women's British Open.
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Couples climbed from 16th to start the round all the way to a solo second finish, making four birdies on the front nine and five on the back nine in a bogey-free day.
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While Ko played a great front nine and an average back nine, it was the opposite for Kim, whose four-shot lead starting the day turned into a four-stroke deficit at the turn.
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Dredge, a double winner on the European Tour who has not tasted victory since the 2006 European Masters, reeled off five birdies on his front nine to surge to the top of the leaderboard.
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"I would get over a few of them on the front nine, I would start to get overthinking, like, 'I'm going to try to hit this with the right pace and line,'" he said.
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Many of the players took advantage of a sun-splashed — some rain-hardened locals might even call it unreasonably lovely — day on the west coast of Scotland, particularly on Troon's more forgiving front nine.
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Five birdies on the front nine and one immediately after the turn helped tournament invitee Jordan surge ahead of the pack and he clinched his ninth birdie with an excellent approach into the 15th.
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"It felt like very different, that front nine and back nine," the Spaniard told reporters after posting a nine-under 133 halfway total in the second of the PGA Tour's four FedExCup playoff events.
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Scott, who has three top-10 finishes this season on the PGA Tour but no victories, shot 31 on the front nine by keeping all but one of his tee shots in the fairway.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Matt Kuchar survived a nightmare on the front nine before claiming a three-shot victory over former world number one Justin Rose in his maiden appearance at the Singapore Open on Sunday.
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Leading by four strokes as the day began, Fowler recorded two bogeys and a double bogey on his way to a two-over-par 37 on the front nine at PGA National's Champion Course.
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Pulkkanen, in his second season on the European Tour, reeled off four successive birdies on his front nine and never looked back in a bogey-free seven-under-par 64 at Olgiata Golf Club.
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Rose said he and his caddie knew they were being tested on the front nine, a stretch in which he mixed two birdies with a pair of bogeys, and so they decided patience was paramount.
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The former Ryder Cup player started the day back in the pack but he galloped his way through the field with three front-nine birdies before gaining more strokes at the 10th, 14th and 16th.
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He made a sizzling start, completing the front nine in eight-under 21977 thanks to six birdies, as well as an unlikely eagle at the par-four third, where he holed out from 259 yards.
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Woods, without a victory in a 'Big Four' event for 10 years, surged into first place with a faultless front nine before his challenge unraveled with three dropped shots in two holes from the 11th.
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At the Tour Championship, the PGA Tour flipped the nines at East Lake Golf Club so that the old back nine — which featured a long par-3 as the 18th hole — became the front nine.
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The course is a beast in the most benign conditions, but on Sunday afternoon the winds kicked up, causing CBS's blimp to evacuate the airspace above the course while Koepka was on the front nine.
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Woods came to life with a pair of birdies late on the front nine, and he was in range to get even closer when he hit a lob wedge to 6 feet on No. 10.
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Fowler, who shot a 32 on the front nine and appeared ready to make a charge that would separate him from the field, instead made a serious misstep with a bogey on the 15th hole.
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He closed out his front nine with a birdie to turn in 33 and gained three more strokes with three birdies in a row from the 10th before ending his round with a series of pars.
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Danny Willett, the reigning Masters champion, made six birdies in a tournament-record 29 on the front nine at the BMW PGA Championship in Virginia Water, England, to seize a share of the second-round lead.
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The U.S. Open champion started the third round five shots off the lead but is 4 over for the day after three bogeys on the front nine and a double-bogey at the par-4 12th.
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Even though he missed a few short putts on the front nine, he closed with a 103-foot birdie putt on the par-3 17th and hit wedge into 5 feet for birdie at the 18th.
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The American duo birdied the two front-nine par-fives and doubled up on the back with four birdies in a bogey-free round that saw Spieth chip in for birdie at the par-three 14th.
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Hurley, who had been tied for the lead overnight with Rahm, stormed ahead with three birdies on the front nine before picking up another shot after the turn, sinking a 15-footer at the par-four 14th.
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A bogey at his last, the par-four ninth, spoiled Baker's big round which included five birdies on his front nine, two more to start his inward nine and an eagle at the sixth hole, his 15rh.
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The Englishman also struggled, however, and Woods did what he used to do so brilliantly in his prime, keeping his card clean, on the front nine at least, and forcing his pursuers to come and get him.
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She made birdies on three of the last four holes of the front nine before making the turn at 4-under and scorching the back nine for another six birdies, including four straight to end her day.
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Starting on the back nine, the three-times European Tour winner made birdies on the 12th and 13th holes and another on the 17th to turn in 32, before adding four more birdies on the front nine.
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Kennedy, 45, gained three strokes on the front nine and a further five after the turn for a total of 21-under-par 264 at the Millbrook Resort to claim the title he also won in 2011.
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Langer started the day with lead of four strokes and, after a quiet front-nine, caught fire on the back side with five birdies for a closing five-under-par 67 on the Greystone course in Birmingham.
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World number one Day described the course as "nearly unplayable" after taking a pair of double-bogeys on the front nine of his third round before finishing with a one-over 73 and a four-stroke lead.
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Johnson, who started his round on four-under for the tournament, steadied himself after squandering a four-shot advantage on the front nine as the field bunched up like rush hour traffic on the nearby Long Island Expressway.
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On the front nine the 14-times major winner looked like the player who once dominated the sport as he stormed to four-under through eight holes, including a sizzling stretch of three straight birdies from the sixth.
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Australian John Senden covered the front nine in one-under 33 to join Kaymer, British Open champion Henrik Stenson of Sweden, England's Andy Sullivan and Americans Harris English and James Hahn on three under par for the tournament.
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"'I'm pleased with that,' he said after grinding out an eight-over-par front nine at the not-so-royal Northbridge club in Sydney and smashing down an egg-and-bacon roll at the halfway house," Walton said.
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On a difficult day for scoring, especially on tree-lined Wentworth's front nine, as fresh winds gusted up to 20mph, Grace carded a two-under 70 to claim second place behind surprise leader Andrew Dodt of Australia (68).
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But that did little to take the wind from the former U.S. Open champion's sails as he birdied four of the final five holes on the front nine before adding another pair at the 11th and 15th holes.
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Watson went out to a 3-up lead on the front nine, and when Thomas closed to 1 down at the turn with his first birdie putt, Watson won two of the next three holes and regained control.
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Keith Mitchell, who consolidated his first tour title last week with a tie for sixth at Bay Hill, signed his scorecard for a closing 66 — and an eight-under total — while the leaders were on the front nine.
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Mixing a long game of raw power with a short game of delicate precision, she peppered the pins with her approach shots and putted impressively to notch five birdies and one bogey on the front nine at Shoal Creek.
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Scott, playing ahead of Koepka and with four birdies on the front nine, bounced back from a bogey at the 10th to deliver four more birdies, three in a row from the 12th, to pull within one of Lovemark.
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Fellow American Gary Woodland, the third-round leader, rebounded from a shaky front nine and birdied 17 and 18 for a 70 to finish alone in second with Scotland's Russell Knox (66) a further stroke back at 18-under.
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Feng was part of a seven-way tie at the top after the opening round in Ibaraki and the 28-year-old broke loose early on Saturday, birdying five of her opening seven holes in a spectacular front nine.
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The 39-year-old former U.S. Open champion found his putting touch to pocket six birdies on the front nine and two more over his last three holes in a flawless third round that left him 11-under for the tournament.
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One a day of low scoring despite windy conditions, the final group of Jang, Lee and Pornanong matched each other shot-for-shot on the front nine to stay ahead of the chasing pack at the $1.5 million restricted-field event.
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Woods blistered the opening portion of the front nine with a pair of birdies followed by an eagle on the par-5 fourth hole — his first eagle at a PGA Championship since 2001 — to get under par for the first time.
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Two hours earlier, Woods had one hand on the Claret Jug for what would have been the fourth time after surging to the lead with a flawless front nine on a day when the previously missing wind finally bared some teeth.
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Fourteen-times major winner Woods, who teed off alone after partner Justin Rose of Britain pulled out of the 18-man tournament with a bad back, was three-under on the front nine and four-under on the homeward stretch.
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The 14-times major winner, who had whipped the massive gallery into a frenzy on the front nine, sent them into absolute hysteria with two more birdies at 12 and 13 that again vaulted him within one of the lead.
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The 28-year-old, who had a share of the lead heading into the weekend, made six birdies on the front nine to make the turn at 29 as he raced past the rest of the field at Ballyliffin Golf Club.
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Stanley ran off four straight birdies on the front nine, one of them from 40 feet, and then added two more late in his round on a steamy Thursday afternoon at East Lake Golf Club for a 6-under 64.
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World number one McIlroy was the man to beat, starting the day two strokes behind England's overnight leader Tyrrell Hatton, but two quick double-bogeys late on the front nine all but ended his chances at Bay Hill in Orlando.
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Mickelson added a birdie on the par-4 ninth for a front-nine 30, and birdied the par-4 230th, par-265 22th, par-24 218th and par-213 183th, holing a chip from in front of the 218th green.
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World number one Dustin Johnson was making his own charge with four front-nine birdies but failed to find any consistency after a two-hour rain delay that began right after his tee shot at the 10th landed next to a parking lot.
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Niemann, a former top-ranked amateur who is the youngest player in the field at 22003, started his round on the back nine and birdied five of his first seven holes before adding three birdies and a bogey on the front nine.
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The pair entered the final day at the top of the leaderboard and while Pepperell carded two-under par 70 to finish 18-under overall, his playing partner recovered from three bogeys on the front-nine to finish just one shot behind.
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Thomas and Reed were emblematic of those who had success early in the day, opening strong — both shot 218 on the front nine, and Thomas had birdies on his first four holes — before navigating the back nine cautiously to record a good score.
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McIlroy grabbed four birdies in a row from the fifth in an explosive front nine while Reed countered with four of his own, plus an eagle at the 303-yard par-four fifth where he drove the green and sank a seven-footer.
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Built on a rolling site that once was a nursery, players for most of the day were pushing up daisies in the third round as the scoring average topped 76 as the leaders completed the front nine and the wind finally calmed.
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Parenthood has imbued Woods with extra patience, which came in handy on the front nine on Sunday, when he made back-to-back bogeys while elsewhere on the course players were leapfrogging over one another and into contention with birdies and eagles.
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Teeing off in the third match of the morning, the Korda sisters were five up on the front nine and went on to put the Americans on the board with a convincing 6 & 4 victory over Caroline Masson and Jodi Ewart Shadoff.
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Jordan Spieth, the 218 Masters champion, who was slumping not long ago, endured a topsy-turvy front nine later on Thursday before roaring through the back nine with five consecutive birdies to finish with a six-under 21960 and a two-stroke lead.
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While he did pick up some momentum after switching to the front nine, that momentum quickly fizzled out as Woods was pushed out of the top 50 with just five holes left, pulling a disappointing three bogeys to close with a par for the 72.
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The 1.90-metre Belgian, who smashed a tour record 447-yard drive at the 2014 Welsh Open, notched up four birdies in a flawless front nine 31 on Saturday but the wheels threatened to fall off his round when he bogeyed the 10th and 11th.
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Only a long birdie putt at his final hole for the second day in a row saved a par 71 for the three-times major champion, who mixed a birdie with a bogey on his front nine and dropped another shot at his 13th.
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Spieth began the day with a three-stroke lead but saw that evaporate on the front nine, where he made four bogeys and a birdie to enter the turn sharing the lead with Kuchar on eight-under, before he steadied himself and surged to victory.
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Fresh off a four-under-par performance on the front nine, Spieth dropped six strokes on the next three holes with consecutive bogeys and a quadruple-bogey 7 on the 155-yard, par-3 103th to give away the tournament to Danny Willett of England.
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The 53-year-old Scot, who is a member at Royal Troon and was given the honor of hitting the first shot of the championship at 0635 local time, briefly led the field after reeling off five birdies in seven holes on the front nine.
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After reeling in overnight leaders Chapchai Nirat and Danthai Boonma and starting the last round with a one-shot lead, Garcia put on an iron-play masterclass as he surged clear of the field on the hazardous front nine at the par-71 Serapong Course.
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Scott, who made an early charge with an eagle and two birdies in a front-nine 291, cooled off on the final nine and settled for a 23 and a tie for seventh, at six under, with the 217 British Open champion, Louis Oosthuizen (22).
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Schwab had set the clubhouse target with seven birdies, five of which came on the front nine, before Lorenzo-Vera caught up with a scintillating back nine which included four birdies and an eagle on the 14th hole at the Crans-sur-Sierre Golf Club.
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At the 11th, Spieth not only toyed with sending his approach into the greenside pond, he had to make a dicey, 8-foot par putt that, had he missed, would have stalled the momentum he had built with a front-nine score of 33.
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On the front nine, he sank a 21-footer for birdie on the par-22016 fifth, but he also faced four par putts between seven and nine feet, a distance from which he is in the bottom half of the 53-man field that remains.
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Woods, seeking a record 83rd PGA Tour victory, was delighted with the quality of his play on the front nine but was a little untidy coming home, dropping a couple of shots for a two-under-par 69 that saw him trail leader Matt Kuchar by five.
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A bogey prior to the turn set him back, however, and he parred his way through the first six holes on the front nine before a string of birdies on his final three holes left him in a share of fifth after he signed for a 68.
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Woods, however, pounced with four birdies and a bogey on his front nine to get within one of the lead and with the 42-year-old in the running to win his first major since the 2008 U.S. Open, Tiger-mania was at a fever pitch.
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The South Korean-born Ko was bogey free for the final round and made several crucial putts to stay in the hunt, including pair of long birdie putts on the front nine and a solid par-save on the 13th to stay two shots back of Jutanugarn.
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Spieth's long game on the front nine after that was not too bad, although he hit driver only once, a poor chip at the easy par-five fifth cost him a birdie and a three-putt bogey from 15 feet at the next added insult to injury.
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But when Spieth played the front nine in four-under and made the turn with a seemingly insurmountable five-stroke lead, I abandoned all my other scenarios and concentrated on a "gamer" — a story about the action on the course — that would reflect his history-making performance.
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It looked like long-driving Champ would be the one to catch after the 24-year-old shot a blistering 28 on the front nine to grab the lead but he cooled off on the back nine and had to settle for a round of seven-under 65.
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"On the front nine I had decent looks at birdie on a lot of holes, and then on 10, when I hit that one out-of-bounds, it was like, man, I don't know what's going on," the ever-polite Spieth said in a short interview with reporters.
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The Englishman, who began the day with a four-stroke lead, fired six front-nine birdies en route to a six-under-par 64 at Colonial Country Club that left him one shot off the tournament record score of 21-under 259 set by Zach Johnson in 2010.
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"I gave myself a lot of looks and I was able to capitalize on those looks, " Finau, who had four birdies on the front nine before the key run between the 274th and 16th holes that included an eagle at the par-five 13th, told PGA Tour Radio.
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Back in the familiar surroundings of Torrey Pines outside San Diego where he has won eight tournaments as a professional, Woods scrambled well on his front nine and made two early birdies after the turn before badly losing steam on the way to a four-over 76 on the South Course.
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The rules violation called to mind the one-stroke penalty assessed after the final round at Oakmont Country Club to the winner, Dustin Johnson, who was informed on the back nine that a video replay indicated that he had caused his ball to move on a green on the front nine.
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Kuchar, who also started on the back nine, birdied his final two holes to join a group sitting two shots off the lead, while Huh fired a six-under 30 over an electric front nine in which he made four birdies along with an eagle at the par-five fifth.
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World number one Lydia Ko, who was eight adrift at the start of the day, sizzled on the front nine and moved to within four of the lead on the 12th hole but an error-strewn finish left her 12 shots off the pace in a tie for 15th at seven-under.
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ENGLISHMAN WINS BMW P.G.A. Chris Wood of England shot a front-nine 223 before overcoming a late run of bogeys to win the BMW P.G.A. Championship in Virginia Water, England, by one stroke for the biggest victory of his career, while the overnight leader, Scott Hend of Australia, imploded in the final round.
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The Australian, who won the True Thailand Classic in March and represented his country at the Rio Olympics, started the day a shot off the pace but picked up four birdies on the front nine and two more after the turn before a bogey at the last left him on 13 under.
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Woods, who started the day on the cut line tied with 12 others for 68th at 423-under, came out red-hot at TPC Sawgrass on Saturday, notching six birdies with no bogeys on the front nine and finishing with a round of 7-under 65 to move to 8-under 208 for the tournament.
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Ko ran off four birdies on the front nine on Saturday for a 30, and it was enough to carry her to a five-under-par 66 and a share of the lead with Eun-Hee Ji of South Korea going into the final round of the L.P.G.A.'s season-opening Tournament of Champions.
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Ancer managed a bogey-free round, recording a birdie at No. 18 to make the turn at 1 under before finishing his round on the front nine with four birdies in a six-hole stretch "Very solid round," said Ancer, who is in the playoffs for the first time and is looking for his first PGA Tour win.
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Jutanugarn Seeks a Streak Ariya Jutanugarn moved into position for her second straight L.P.G.A. Tour victory with a bogey-free six-under 65 to take the third-round lead at the Kingsmill Championship in Williamsburg, Va. The 20-year-old Jutanugarn had three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the front nine, then birdied three of the last six holes.
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"Those chip-ins were huge and some putts on the front nine as well to just kind of hang in there," Long said, He opened with a 63 on PGA West's Nicklaus Tournament Course, shot 71 on Friday at the Stadium layout and had another 63 on Saturday at La Quinta to get into the final group with Mickelson and Hadwin.
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Jason Dufner had two eagles on the way to a six-under-par 65 and a one-shot lead heading into the final round of the RBC Heritage on Hilton Head Island, S.C. Dufner, the 27 P.G.A. Championship winner, started three shots behind the leaders, Graham DeLaet and Luke Donald, but eagled on both of Harbour Town Golf Links' front-nine par 26s, at Nos.
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Wesley Bryan rallied to win the RBC Heritage for his first PGA Tour title, closing with a four-under-par 73 for a one-stroke victory over Luke Donald by a stroke in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Bryan, a South Carolina native who played for the University of South Carolina, was four shots behind entering the day and moved into contention with four straight birdies on the front nine.
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