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Emiliano Grillo matched The Summit Club people grounds Sunday, shooting 11-under 61 to rocket up the leaderboard 38 spots and decorativeness the CJ Cup astatine 18 under.
Grillo played the last six holes successful 7 under, making eagles connected some the 14th and 18th holes to spell with birdies connected Nos. 13, 16 and 17. He besides birdied Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 8 connected the front.
Unlike the remainder of the week, Grillo said helium was yet capable to marque immoderate putts, which made his strategy beauteous straightforward.
“Fire astatine the green, marque the putt,” helium said. “It’s precise simple.”
His people matches the authoritative people grounds acceptable Thursday by Robert Streb, though Maverick McNealy had besides changeable 61 astatine The Summit during a signifier round.
Spectacular finish
Talor Gooch concisely shared the pb aft completing a 62 portion the different leaders were inactive connected the beforehand nine. He finished astatine 21 under, yet bully for a necktie for fifth, and helium did it successful melodramatic fashion.
After driving into a fairway bunker and laying up with his 2nd changeable connected the 18th, Gooch deed a wedge 94 yards and into the cupful for a hole-out eagle finish.
“It was a bully wedge fig and I was hitting it adjacent each day,” helium said. “So that was — it was a cleanable number, cleanable shot, and it’s bully erstwhile it comes unneurotic similar that.”
Ancer has the answer
If Abraham Ancer could play the 14th spread astatine The Summit Club each the time, he’d beryllium unbeatable.
Ancer played the par 5 successful 7 nether implicit the last 3 rounds, making a uncommon albatross connected Friday, past eagle connected some Saturday and Sunday.
English withdraws
Harris English withdrew during the last circular erstwhile helium tweaked his backmost connected the ninth hole.
English was 7 nether for the tourney and adjacent par connected his circular erstwhile helium reached the ninth hole. He drove it successful the close rough, past made an awkward plaything and precocious the shot lone 90 yards into the autochthonal country erstwhile helium stopped.
Staying hot
Two players who came into the week connected a rotation continued to play good astatine the CJ Cup.
Sungjae Im, the victor past week astatine the Shriners Children’s Open, had a final-round 64 to decorativeness astatine 20 nether and a necktie for ninth.
Sam Burns, who has won doubly successful the past 5 months and leads the early-season FedEx standings, finished successful a necktie for 5th astatine 21 under.
Rough week
Charl Schwartzel indispensable beryllium wondering what people everyone other was playing this week. The erstwhile Masters champ was the lone subordinate to decorativeness implicit par, and it wasn’t close.
In fact, Schwartzel ne'er broke par for the week, shooting even-par 72 connected some Thursday and Friday earlier play rounds of 76 and 75 to decorativeness astatine 7 over.
Greg Robertson covers play for the Review-Journal. He tin beryllium reached astatine grobertson@reviewjournal.com.
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