NAPLES, Fla. — Charley Hoffman and Ryan Palmer had 10 birdies in modified alternate shot Saturday for a 10-under 62, setting the 36-hole report within the QBE Shootout and taking a 2-shot lead into the ultimate day.
Teammates for the primary time, Hoffman and Palmer had been at 26-under 118. That broke the report by 1 shot beforehand shared by Harris English and Matt Kuchar in 2020 and Jason Day and Cameron Tringale in 2014.
Hoffman and Palmer led by 2 photographs over Tom Hoge and Sahith Theegala, each taking part in the unofficial occasion for the primary time. They mixed for a 60 at Tiburon Golf Membership.
In modified alternate shot, each gamers hit tee photographs after which they alternated photographs the remainder of the best way. The ultimate spherical can be fourballs.
English and Kuchar, who’ve gained the QBE Shootout 3 times collectively, additionally had a 62 and had been 4 photographs behind together with Day and Billy Horschel, who had a 61. That is the identical rating they’d within the scramble format.
The 2 LPGA gamers within the subject had been 9 photographs behind. Nelly Korda and Denny McCarthy had a 67, the identical rating as Lexi Thompson and Maverick McNealy. Korda and McCarthy took a double bogey on No. 11, after which performed their final six holes in 7-under par.
Six of the 12 groups had 65 or decrease within the modified alternate shot.
“We had been in a reasonably good rhythm. We had been giving ourselves birdie probabilities and we had been knocking most of them in,” Hoffman stated. “The truth is we had been simply doing our factor. Clearly, we noticed the low scores, however which means there’s birdies on the market and we tried to assault them in and we did a reasonably good job.”
