Bethpage Greens Receive Overnight Watering...
/I guess we'll never know what happened Saturday to make Bethpage's greens speed up so much, but count soon-to-be-former-Ryder Cup hopeful Padraig Harrington to the hyperbole.
“The greens yesterday afternoon hurt my cause,” he said, after an admirable 68 advanced him on three-under. “I don’t think I’ve ever putted on greens faster and it doesn’t look good from outside when you start on with a 64 and shoot 75-75. I’m actually really happy where my game is.”
Something led to the greens returning to more reasonable speeds Sunday after Saturday's mysterious speed-up, and Doug Ferguson says it was water:
After a third round in which several players felt the greens were close to dead and nearly impossible to putt, there was plenty of water on them overnight. High scores were more a product of bad play, and it was difficult for anyone to make up too much ground because conditions were comparable throughout the day.
