1st round update: 3-3-0 and -2.90 units
Frustrating day as a result of not doing my homework! The results first: Toms lost to Triplett by one, Perry beat Sutton by five, Janzen beat Daly by two, Stricker lost to Lowery by one, Roberts double-bogeyed the par-5 last to lose to Sutton by one
and Olazabal beat Langer by three.
All the losses were by a single shot and one should have been the other way around, but basically this was a day of poor capping. Having become too caught up in the First Stake affair, I failed to read that they had toughened up the North Course, lengthening it in particular. The basis on which these plays were made was false. In actual fact, the North Course played harder yesterday: it averaged 70.85 shots compared to 70.75 for the South Course and this differential increases to 0.48 shots once account is taken [using the Sagarin index] of the difference in quality of player across the two courses
A bad day that should have been avoided. As a result there are no plays for the 2nd round. At least the other plays look to be making amends. In the 72-hole matches, Daly trails Janzen by two and Jones by four, though Furyk does trail Weir by five. Even better position in the outrights: Love is 2nd, Perry is 4th and Lehman is 15th after day one. Will spend today cheering these players on!