Triple Spook Can't Hurt Casey's Day At St. Andrews

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP)—A 3 times spook would chuck many golfers in to a deep funk, generally at a vital championship.

Not Paul Casey.

The Englishman was anxious with his spin at the British Open on Friday, even with which 7 he done on the par-4 17th hole which knocked him at slightest one spot down the leaderboard. His 3-under 69 Friday left him at 6 underneath for the tournament, in a tie for third, six strokes at the at the behind of of early personality Louis Oosthuizen.

“To be honest, I’m not even which undone with what happened on 17,” Casey said. “If you had told me I’d be in the hall on 6-under, I would have bitten your arm off, generally with the conditions we were warming up in this sunrise in the breeze and the pouring rain. Yeah, I’m really happy with that.”

Casey’s been fighting a scratchy throat, but the complicated rains and cool temperatures didn’t crop up to worry him as he non-stop with 3 straight birdies and done the spin at 5 underneath for the day. He couldn’t get any reduce on the at the behind of nine, but he wasn’t giving any strokes back, either.

Until the 17th, which is.

The blind tee shot isn’t the Road Hole’s usually challenge. The severe on the left side is so thick a tiny kid could get mislaid in there, and Casey’s tee shot sailed right in to it. Starting brazen was usually starting to get him deeper in trouble. But the Old Course Hotel—and all of its big windows—made a sideways shot tricky, too.

“If I went at it too tough and it came out, I could end up in Room 312,” Casey said. “So the bar only went true underneath it.”

He eventually got out by starting backward, but afterwards three-putted.

“So flattering easy,” he joked. “An easy 7.”

Casey took out whatever annoy he competence have had on the 18th tee, driving almost to the stairs of the hall which sits at the at the behind of of the 357-yard hole. With about 100 feet to the hole, he putted to inside of 5 feet and knocked which in for birdie.

With the winds utterance in the afternoon—play was dangling since of high winds—Casey was utterly gentle with where he is starting in to the weekend. He has one top-10 finish in his prior 8 starts at the British Open, tying for seventh at Royal Birkdale in 2008.

“I review the Tom Watson allude to about, 'Whatever she gave divided today, she’ll take at the behind of tomorrow.’ I hold which with links golf,” Casey said. “It’s about hanging around. I’d be really tender if Louis and Rory keep popping in scores like that. If they do, great fitness to them.”

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