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Player Diary: Jack Nicklaus
Two-time Senior Open champion Jack Nicklaus shot a 3-over
74 in the third round and is currently at 11-over 224 for
the championship. He is tied for 39th and shared
his thoughts with www.ussenioropen.com:
[Saturday] was a tougher day than [Friday] for me, even though
the course played a little easier. The greens were a little
slower, and the wind didn’t come up much during the early
morning.
The day didn’t get off to a very good start. I hit a good
shot at No. 3 that went the other way and I made bogey. Then
I hit a good tee shot at No. 4 that bounced through the fairway
and made bogey. So it was just one of those days. I did eventually
make a birdie at the last, but it was too little, too late.
I hit about eight greens [Saturday], not very exciting, and
had 27 putts. But when you never hit a green you can’t have
many putts. You've got to make something.
When you play as badly as I did you have to do something
right to shoot a 74. [Saturday] it was making eight up-and-downs
for par.
I worked on my swing [Friday] on the range. I just tried
to get my swing right. I worked on shallowing it out, and
I did get it shallowed out for most of the round, but I got
a little sloppy at the middle of the round when I bogeyed
the 15th and 16th holes.
The last few holes I found what I lost and got it back again.
I feel like I am making progress on that part of my game
and will focus on continuing to shallow out my swing [Sunday].
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