Whitaker making it to the final is really shocking. His resume is quite limited.....
It has all the makings of a blowout which is why it probably won't be.
I refereed Kuehne's match this afternoon. He hit the ball great but putted very poorly early on, missing a number of opportunities to win or halve holes.
He was 3 down after 11. He hit a great shot to about 5 feet on 12 and made birdie. Hardy came right back with a wonderful up and down from the deep hole to the right front of 13 for birdie to go back to 3 up.
They moved the tees up one box on 14 today and Kuehne almost drove the green. He made a nice birdie to get to 2 down. Whitaker drove the green in the other match and 4 putted to lose the hole.
Both players hit the 15th, but Hardy left his first putt 4 feet short and missed to make fall to +1.
On 16, Kuehne hit an iron to the base of the mounds about 80 yards from the green. Hardy hit a driver into them. Kuehne put his second on the green while Hardy missed it left. Hardy then barely got his next shot to the green and lost with a bogey to Trip's par.
Both players hit good tee shots on 17. From the middle of the fairway, Trip chunked it into the hazard. Hardy put his on the green. Kuehne then dropped where it entered the hazard and the ball bounced into a divot from where he chunked another one into the hazard and conceded the hole to go one down.
On 18, Hardy drove in the right rough while Trip hit it into the same bunker he hit in the morning right at the corner of the dogleg. Hardy laid up to about 120 yards. Trip hit a great shot from the bunker to about 75 yards. Hardy hit a wonderful shot to 5 feet. Trip then hit it to 18 inches and the putt was conceded. Hardy missed his putt that would have won the match so we went to #1.
Both players hit good tee shots. Trip hit his second to about 18 feet. Hardy hit his to 25 feet directly on the same line. He missed and Trip made to end the match.