front nine

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“I was biding my time on the front nine — the targets are so small here — but I found my swing coming down the stretch and that allowed me to be more aggressive,” said Penge, who won three times on the DP World Tour last year to earn his first PGA Tour card.

From Los Angeles Times

Fleetwood had two bogeys and a birdie on the front nine but settled down from there.

From Los Angeles Times

American DeChambeau, also a two-time major winner, suffered a horror round with four bogeys in six holes on the front nine to slide down the leaderboard.

From Barron's

Hisatsune, a 23-year-old chasing his first PGA Tour title, had two birdies on the front nine before launching his streak with a four-foot birdie at the 13th.

From Barron's

She closed the front nine with back-to-back birdies and added birdies at 12, 14 and the par-five 15th before a bogey at the wind-battered 17th.

From Barron's