After three-putting the par-5 ninth gap on Saturday on the Shriners Kids’s Open, Joel Dahmen needed to go dwelling.
He needed another person to play the again 9 for him.
“I advised Geno [Bonnalie, my caddy], I’m completed,” Dahmen stated after his spherical. “I’m impatient, and I’m grumpy, after which good issues occurred. Made a great birdie on 11. Then, I hooped an 8-iron on 12 and made an eagle on 15, and rapidly, I used to be fairly proud of how I performed the again 9.”
Dahmen’s spherical was slightly pedestrian till he arrived on the tough par-4 twelfth, a 458-yard gap that ranked because the third hardest of the day on Saturday.
He discovered the golf green off the tee after which holed out from 178 yards for an eagle-two, which vaulted him up the leaderboard.
By then, he was 4-under on the day.
“It’s a very greasy pin again there subsequent to the water,” Dahmen stated of the twelfth. “I hit an amazing shot. I even advised Geno I hit it completely and performed off the slope, and we didn’t count on it to go in, clearly, however when it does, it’s an enormous bonus.”
Three holes later, on the par-4 fifteenth, Dahmen’s tee shot discovered the perimeter and eventually acquired a putt to fall.
He then made a two-putt birdie on the following gap, the par-5 sixteenth, which proved to be his final par breaker of the day.
“I’m hitting it rather well,” Dahmen stated. “My putter is a joke proper now. It’s powerful to shoot 7-under with dangerous placing, however I managed to try this. I’m hitting it nice. I’m within the fairway lots. My irons are fairly dialed in. If I could make some putts, it could be an amazing Sunday.”
Dahmen’s putter is ice chilly, as he ranks sixtieth within the subject in strokes gained placing.
He misplaced virtually two strokes to the sector on the greens on Saturday whereas main the match in strokes gained: tee-to-green.
The previous Washington Husky gained a whopping 6.56 photographs from tee-to-green through the third spherical, which explains why he carded a 7-under 64.
He’s now 12-under for the match, three strokes behind Tom Kim, who’s the chief as of this writing.
However as a substitute of going to the observe inexperienced to work on his placing, Dahmen headed proper to the tv.
His beloved Huskies are in a top-10 battle in opposition to the Oregon Geese.
“Large sport for Washington,” Dahmen stated. “I don’t have a plan; I’m simply going to get to a TV and test it out.”
That leads us to ask, how do you not love Joel Dahmen?
Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying Via. You’ll be able to comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. Remember to take a look at @_PlayingThrough too.
