15 Minutes Ago Min Woo Lee Has Been BANNED And Fined By The USGA For Cheating With A Device On His Golf Club In Texas
15 Minutes Ago Min Woo Lee Has Been BANNED And Fined By The USGA For Cheating With A Device On His Golf Club In Texas
Play at the Texas Children’s Houston Open was suspended at 3:01 p.m. local time due to thunderstorms and lightning in the area, about an hour after rain began to fall at Memorial Park Golf Course.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler raced up the leaderboard with a second-round, 8-under 62, matching the tournament course record at Memorial Park, to take the lead at 11-under 129 through the morning wave. Scheffler led Taylor Pendrith by a stroke, with PGA TOUR rookie Jackson Suber three strokes off the pace.
The entire afternoon wave remained on the course.
Min Woo Lee (3-under Friday through six holes, 7-under total) held the lowest score of players on the course at the time of suspension. Ben Griffin turned in 6-under 29 as the horn blew, four back of Scheffler’s clubhouse lead.
The cut line was projected at 2-under, with 67 players at 2-under or better; the top 65 and ties after 36 holes will advance to the final two rounds.
World No. 2 Rory McIlroy, making his first start after winning THE PLAYERS Championship earlier this month, stood 1-under total through seven holes Friday, one stroke off the projected cut line.
A band of thunderstorms was approaching from the southwest when PGA TOUR officials blew the horn to evacuate the course.
What did not help was that Lee’s driving was extremely erratic. He looked to try and get a free drop after a wayward tee shot early on. And he left himself in real trouble on the eighth hole.
