Going into the weekend in the Valspar Championship, Adam Schenk was at 7-under 135, a shot ahead of Kramer Hickok; Tommy Fleetwood, Jordan Spieth, Cody Gribble and Davis Riley are two behind Schenk after the first two rounds
Adam Schenk scored a 2-under 69 to hold a one-shot lead after the first two rounds at the Valspar Championship on Friday.
Schenk had four birdies, all but one from inside 10 feet, and finished with a bogey from the bunker before the 18th at Copperhead’s course at Innisbrook.
After the 20-foot putt he made for par at the par-3 eighth, the 10-footer he made at the 10th and the length up and down for par at the par-5 11th, that didn’t bother him. him.
Adam Schenk punches out of the bunker (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)
“I feel like a lot of times you…maybe you shoot 2 low and you’re like, ‘It could have been 6 or 7.’ But it really couldn’t have been much better with the number of putts I made,” she said.
He was at 135, seven under par, a shot ahead of Kramer Hickok, who had a 68.
Schenk is playing for the 10th straight week on the PGA Tour.
There’s even more focus on his work this year because his wife is expecting their first child, a boy, in just over a month.
“I try to score as many points as I can to take as much time off as possible and spend time with him and my wife, which will be very special,” Schenk said.
Fleetwood plays in a bunker (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)
He started his year in Honolulu at the Sony Open and hasn’t had a week off since, going to California and Arizona, and every stop on the Florida swing. He had made the cut in all but two and is No. 72 in the FedEx Cup.
The cut missed last week at The Players Championship might have helped.
“I was home for three and a half days and I didn’t touch a stick,” Schenk said. “I would have practiced, but the weather was so bad in Indiana that I really couldn’t. So I flew to Valspar Tuesday afternoon and practiced a little bit and then I played nine holes and then I got on the pro-am and off we went.” was.”
Tommy Fleetwood was two strokes off the lead (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)
Jordan Spieth will be a big part of the weekend, wasting a great round of driving with some suspicious short irons. He still posted a 70 and was only two shots behind.
Tommy Fleetwood had a 69 and joined Spieth in the group two shots behind along with Cody Gribble (65) and Davis Riley (68), who lost in a playoff to Sam Burns at Innisbrook last year.
Burns, a two-time defending champion, is trying to become the first player to win the same tournament three years in a row since Steve Stricker won the John Deere Classic (2009-11). He had a 73 and was seven shots behind.
Justin Thomas had a 70 and was in the group at 139, three under par.
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