So much for Tony Romo making the weekend at the Safeway Open.
Romo followed up his opening 70 with a mistake-laden 78 on Friday and will be in the broadcast booth with Jim Nantz come Sunday.
And Phil Mickelson can take in that Bears-Vikings game that Romo will analyze. Mickelson, who opening with 75 and predicted a very low score for round two, could do no better than 69 and his even par effort for two days was two shots shy of the two-under cutline. Romo finished four-over and his hopes vanished after an ugly front nine 40 on Friday.
Now everyone can focus on the real players and best through two days is Bryson DeChambeau, who has pledged to play faster. He didn’t need as much time during day two at Silverado as he used only 64 strokes and that jumped him into the halfway lead at 12-under par, two clear of Nick Watney and three better than five players at nine-under, including Justin Thomas and Cameron Champ.
Defending champion Kevin Tway was a cutline casualty. Tway finished one-under and won’t be around to try for a title repeat.
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baxter cepeda
Roger made a hilarious comment in the coverage when he referenced Bryson and caddie conversation as ‘in their code’.
Even playing faster Bryson can’t even begin to play reasonably fast. What he does by nature is time consuming. Unless he cuts major parts of his process, he will still be too slow no matter how much faster he gets, if that makes sense.
The problem is at the end of the day what Bryson does is technically still within the rules, at least until his group falls into the unlikely situation — on the PGA Tour — of being penalized for slow play.
The only way to cut down all the slow play shenanigans —sorry but they are led by Bryson these days but it’s a general problem in the sport — is hard shot times on every single shot. No dramatic public shot clock needed, just good tech and careful attention from the commissioners office to penalize aggressively.
Yes these guys are playing for a lot of money, which is more reason every player should be fair to the field and the paying and viewing audience by playing almost every shot in a reasonable time frame; not just a few shots to catch up before returning to all that time sucking code talk.
Tom Edrington
Did you see Bryson take 20 minutes at 18 Saturday to find a drop area? Incredible.