Shell Houston 2015 1st Round

and PHIL will be out early in the morning.

I will late to the post so to speak so let's go PHIL

Weather looks good.

will be 72*F to 80*F during his round, with winds at 4 mph, partly sunny.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/today/Houston,TX,United-States/we-city-29.76,-95.37?q=houston-tx&form=PRWLAS&iso=US

After being ticked off with 2 lousy first shots PHIL CHIPS IN FOR BIRDIE!!!

Good morning all!

Phil dominates the short par four third hole and taps in for birdie!

-2 through 3 (and in a tie for first!)

I resisted an inward groan when Phil found the greenside bunker with his second shot at the par five. Phil hits a beauty and taps in for another bird.

-3 through 4 (and again tied for first)

Another birdie on the short par-4, drove it 305, chipped it to 2 feet, made the birdie putt.

-2 and T-1st.

lol, old post I never finished.... now -3

4 feet for par and then another par-5 :-)

Phil in the zone. Made 2 5 ft par saves . Confidence building!! chipping looks great too

Another bunker save at 14!

-3 through 5 (still tied for 1st)

PHIL has zoomed today--a great start for PHIL--let's stay strong!!!

He's setup for the correct side (right fairway) to approach the left side pin!!!

Chip it close and make a birdie!!

Too bad for Dufner....getting divorce ($2.5 lump sum payout....taxes should eat a bunch of that?).

TWO PAR FIVE BIRDIES IN A ROW???!!!!!

Phil gets up and down from the rough for the bird!

-4 and alone in first place

Another close chip Phil SOLO LEAD AT -4

Finally sees a 20ft putt drop!!! -5 thru 8 holes

20 footer for birdie? No problem.

-5 through 8 (1st place)

Shot tracker keeps saying shots go to "unmapped." That's weird. It sometimes says it even if Phil is on the green. I would like to think the greens would be "mapped."

Anyway, Phil seems to have hit the fairway bunker (unmapped, so it's anyone's guess) on 18.

-4 and PHIL must be pumped.

-5 and PHIL must be pumpier

nearly another chip in at 18 or maybe he putted

short game and putting is sharp--plus decent driving.

Great play so far

this is first time I've seen "unmapped" ??

just a par on 1 after having just 100 in from the fairway.

-5 through 10, still first place

Admin wrote:nearly another chip in at 18 or maybe he putted

short game and putting is sharp--plus decent driving.

Great play so far

I was going to comment on this. Phil's short game seems really sharp. That is really encouraging with a certain tournament looming next week.