What may or may not have been the last shot anyone had to catch Matt Kuchar at the Barclays fizzled when Vijay Singh’s approach shot from the right rough plopped onto the soft green at his final hole on Friday, some 40 feet from the cup.
Hurricane Irene, which already has forced tournament organizers to shorten the event to 54 holes, could shorten it to 36 holes if the heavy rains forecast for Saturday afternoon soak the already saturated golf course at Plainfield Country Club. “If we don’t get 18 in tomorrow, we will resort back to 36 holes,” said Slugger White, the vice president for rules and competition for the PGA Tour.
Kuchar, who leads Singh and Dustin Johnson by a stroke, set the pace in the early going Friday, with six birdies on the soft greens with the aplomb of a master chef ladling a nice Mornay sauce on crepes.
“I just tried to birdie every hole I could,” said Johnson, who eventually was tied for second by Singh’s 64. Singh is looking for his first victory on tour since he won his third Barclays title and first Deutsche Bank title back to back in 2008.
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