McNeill Rallied Hard to Find the Weekend at Frys.com Open at LinesMaker

McNeill Rallied Hard to Find the Weekend at Frys.com Open

SAN MARTIN, Calif. — With almost all eyes on Tiger Woods dur­ing the first two rounds of the Frys.com Open, George McNeill – two groups ahead – had a tough time find­ing his golf ball at the eighth hole of his open­ing round. Pulling his drive some 40 yards left into a tall grass haz­ard, McNeill seemed des­tined to miss the cut after his third bogey not even halfway into the round.

McNeill, how­ever, will be mak­ing a pay­check this week­end at Corde­Valle because of a deter­mined and incred­i­ble comeback.

After post­ing 4-over 75 on Thurs­day, McNeill bal­looned to 6-over through 27 holes with the blow soft­ened thanks to a birdie at the clos­ing hole. Per­haps that was enough to com­pletely reverse McNeill’s course because he turned to the front to make five birdies in his first six holes to sud­denly sit on the cut line at 1-over.

At the reach­able par-5 ninth, McNeill blasted his drive 320 yards to set up an approach shot over the water haz­ard to leave 25 feet for an eagle and a guar­an­teed pay­check. Drain­ing the putt, McNeill com­pleted a back nine – on the front side of the course – in 28 strokes. The nine-hole total was one off of Nick Watney’s 27 at Aron­imink for the best half-round of the sea­son. Accord­ing to Corde­Valle offi­cials, no one had ever bro­ken 30 for nine holes on this course.

Not only did McNeill – the all-time Fall Series money leader – man­age to make the cut but he also was not among the 53 play­ers who had to return to Corde­Valle on Sat­ur­day morn­ing to fin­ish their sec­ond round.

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