{"id":28,"date":"2025-05-23T00:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/84news.top\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/pak-grabs-lead-as-scheffler-looks-for-third-straight-win\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T00:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:37:09","slug":"pak-grabs-lead-as-scheffler-looks-for-third-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/pak-grabs-lead-as-scheffler-looks-for-third-straight-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak grabs lead as Scheffler looks for third straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After the first round at the Colonial Country Club, American John Pak held a three-shot lead after he carded a seven-under 63.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler arrived back in his home state after winning the second major of the season, the PGA Championship, by five strokes on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Masters winner had gone into that tournament on the back of an eight-stroke win at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson and victory this week would make him the first golfer to collect such a hattrick since Dustin Johnson in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler&#8217;s round began with an eagle on the par-five first and a birdie on the second but he followed that with a bogey on the par-four third.<\/p>\n<p>His back nine was unspectacular with a birdie on the 11th and a bogey on the 16th and he conceded that he had found it tough off the tee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a challenging day. I didn&#8217;t hit the ball in the fairway a lot. Around this golf course you have to be in the fairway. I did a good job of posting a score, and hopefully I get out tomorrow in some softer conditions and take advantage of that,&#8221; he said of his early start on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried to do my best to stay patient today. It was a grind of a day. The winds were pretty gusty, and it was challenging. The greens got firm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t look like we&#8217;re going to get much rain this week, so they should continue to firm up, and the golf course should be real nice by the weekend,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>While the crowds flocked to Scheffler, Pak went about his business superbly with his bogey-free round including an eagle on the par-four 10th, his opening hole.<\/p>\n<p>Pak holed out from 147 yards to give himself the perfect start.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just like a perfect nine-iron. The wind was off the left, and I just tried to hit a 145 shot. I actually pushed it a little bit because I was aiming left of it, and it kind of just trickled in,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t really see it, but saw a couple of guys behind the green throw their hands in the air. It was kind of nice to see that fall in,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Pak, who turned professional in 2021 and is in his rookie season on the PGA Tour but played previously at Colonial thanks to a sponsors exemption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is definitely difficult seeing courses for the first time, and definitely having one under my belt kind of helps me navigate the course a little better,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A group of nine players are bunched three shots back of Pak including Japan&#8217;s Ryo Hisatsune, Germany&#8217;s Matti Schmid and England&#8217;s Matt Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2025 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston (AFP) \u2013 <\/span>                    World number one Scottie Scheffler began his attempt for a third straight win with a solid two-under-par round of 68 at the PGA Tour&#8217;s Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday.                <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"t-content__beside-sidebar\" data-article-content>\n<div class=\"t-content__metadata\">\n<div class=\"t-content__dates\">\n<p class=\"m-pub-dates\"><span class=\"m-pub-dates__date\">Issued on: 23\/05\/2025 &#8211; 02:37<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"a-reading-time\">\n    <span class=\"a-svg a-svg--picto-clock\" title=\"Reading time\"><\/span> 2 min    <span class=\"u-sr-only\">Reading time<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"a-share-button\" data-root-share>\n<p>                                <i class=\"a-svg a-svg--icon-share\"><\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"t-content__main-media\">\n<figure class=\"m-figure m-figure--16x9\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"Part-GTY-2216576820-1-1-0.jpg\" alt=\"World number one Scottie Scheffler is looking to win his third straight tournament on  the PGA Tour.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"m-figure__img lazy\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudfclub.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}