Everything that stands between Nick Hardy and his first cut -out for months is 17 feet.
He will wait until Saturday in the morning to take a stroke.
Making cuts was not easy for Hardy, a 29-year-old from Illinois, because he did not play at the weekend from the World Wide Championships Technology Championships in November last year. He left five straight cuts and six of the last seven. The only reason he did not lose his PGA Tour card after completing 147. In points last season is that he still has a dismissal of the winner from the Zurich Classic 2023 class. So forgive Hardy if he wants to sleep.
In his mind he will have more light and fresh greenery when he returns in the morning.
“Listen, the sun was abandoned,” said Hardy, who sits from 1 to 35 holes of this WM Phoenix Open, a shot under the cut line. “I want to give myself the best chance to do this Putt, and the competitor wants to hit him now, but I know that the best chance to make this putt is to return tomorrow.”
Putt, says Hardy, is down, breaks a bit from right to left. He knows that the chances are not in his favor, regardless of when they put them-the average PGA Tour with 15-20 feet is 18.48%, while the hardy is 2 for 7 in this field this year. If Frankie Capan III had Putt for him, he would have 46.15% chance of transformation, but Hardy says that everything he can do is throw it well.
“That’s all I can control,” he adds.
Hardy is not the only player fighting near the cutting line, who decided not to finish. Lanto Griffin, who sits at 2 below, will play from the left Fairway bunker on Par-4 eight, when he returns on Saturday morning.
Both players are trying to avoid an early outing with such known as Matt Fitzpatrick (1 below), Amateur Luke Clanton (1 below), Joel Dahmen (1 above) and Max Homa (3 above). Lucas Glover also left the cut, even on an equal footing, although he made sure he finished, running between the arrows down when he survived two of the last three holes.
Hardy wrapped 6 feet on an equal footing on Par-4 eighth to put himself in this situation, but fortunately for Hardy he has some experience on which you can resist. Last year, he faced a 15-meter Putt in Colonial when the weather was delayed by the tournament; Hardy returned about one and a half later and sank Putt. He also planned to simulate this 17-foot several times in Green practice on Friday evening, before he did the same before the Saturday restart.
Apart from that?
“Stay away from my phone and rest calmly,” said Hardy, “and dream about doing it putt.”
