'In typical golf fashion, it's probably the best I hit it and the worst I putted,' said Power, who lamented makeable birdie chances at 4 through 9 that all ...
… I felt more comfortable today than I did in the PGA and that’s encouraging,” he said. I actually had a lot of makeable birdie chances today, nothing too close but a lot of middle-distance putts between 10 and 20 feet, and I wasn’t able to capitalize, especially early. I was able to get two on 12 and 13 and I had some chances after that too and wasn’t quite able to capitalize. Bogeys at 3, 9 and 10 dropped him to 2-over and out of the top 20 before making birdies on 12 and 13. “Makeable chances on 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and didn’t make any. “I was hoping to get into red figures starting today and see what happens on the back nine,” Power said after his T12 followed T27 at the Masters and T9 at the PGA Championship in his first two major starts.