Tom McKibbin was happy to shoot below par in a significant for the primary time in his profession however stated there may be nonetheless a” lot of golf left” on the US PGA Championship.
The 22-year-old from Northern Eire carded a one-under-par 70 at Quail Hole to depart him in a tie for twenty ninth after the primary spherical.
McKibbin, who performs on the Legion XIII crew in LIV Golf alongside John Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, carded 4 birdies and three bogeys in a spherical the place he felt he took benefit of what was provided by the course.
“Very glad. To shoot below par on the market was good,” he stated.
“The course is enjoying troublesome as you’d count on.
“I took benefit of the holes which might be gettable and parred my method round the remaining.
“Fairly cool, nevertheless it’s solely 18 holes. There’s numerous golf left.”
The course in North Carolina, which often hosts the Truist Championship on the PGA Tour, was topic to heavy rain within the days main as much as the event.
McKibbin described the circumstances as “tense”, particularly in the course of the three-hole end dubbed the ‘Inexperienced Mile’.
“Very a lot as anticipated, the greens are very agency. A few of the pins are onerous to get the ball shut,” he stated.
“You are simply form of grinding for pars. The fairways are very tender.
“It makes it play lengthy, so it is tense at occasions. These final three holes are very, very onerous, the right-to-left wind and all of the troubles up the left.”
McKibbin tees off at 14:06 BST within the second spherical on Friday and stated his method will probably be “extra of the identical”.
“Eradicate errors, hit fairways, hit greens,” he stated.
“When you begin lacking fairways and the greens, particularly within the fallacious spots, it may get sort of difficult.”
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