Joel Dahmen in Shriners Youngsters’s Open combine amid 187-yard gap out3 min read

After three-putting the par-5 ninth gap on Saturday on the Shriners Youngsters’s Open, Joel Dahmen wished to go dwelling.

He wished another person to play the again 9 for him.

“I instructed Geno [Bonnalie, my caddy], I’m accomplished,” Dahmen mentioned after his spherical. “I’m impatient, and I’m grumpy, after which good issues occurred. Made birdie on 11. Then, I hooped an 8-iron on 12 and made an eagle on 15, and rapidly, I used to be fairly proud of how I performed the again 9.”

Dahmen’s spherical was slightly pedestrian till he arrived on the troublesome par-4 twelfth, a 458-yard gap that ranked because the third hardest of the day on Saturday.

He discovered the green off the tee after which holed out from 178 yards for an eagle-two, which vaulted him up the leaderboard.

By then, he was 4-under on the day.

“It’s a extremely greasy pin again there subsequent to the water,” Dahmen mentioned of the twelfth. “I hit a terrific shot. I even instructed Geno I hit it completely and performed off the slope, and we didn’t anticipate it to go in, clearly, however when it does, it’s an enormous bonus.”

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Three holes later, on the par-4 fifteenth, Dahmen’s tee shot discovered the perimeter and at last received a putt to fall.

He then made a two-putt birdie on the following gap, the par-5 sixteenth, which proved to be his final par breaker of the day.

“I’m hitting it rather well,” Dahmen mentioned. “My putter is a joke proper now. It’s robust to shoot 7-under with unhealthy placing, however I managed to do this. I’m hitting it nice. I’m within the fairway so much. My irons are fairly dialed in. If I could make some putts, it could be a terrific Sunday.”

Dahmen’s putter is ice chilly, as he ranks sixtieth within the subject in strokes gained placing.

He misplaced virtually two strokes to the sector on the greens on Saturday whereas main the match in strokes gained: tee-to-green.

The previous Washington Husky gained a whopping 6.56 photographs from tee-to-green throughout the third spherical, which explains why he carded a 7-under 64.

He’s now 12-under for the match, three strokes behind Tom Kim, who’s the chief as of this writing.

However as an alternative of going to the observe inexperienced to work on his placing, Dahmen headed proper to the tv.

His beloved Huskies are in a top-10 battle in opposition to the Oregon Geese.

“Big recreation for Washington,” Dahmen mentioned. “I don’t have a plan; I’m simply going to get to a TV and test it out.”

That leads us to ask, how do you not love Joel Dahmen?

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By means of. You may observe him on Twitter @jack_milko for extra golf protection. You’ll want to try @_PlayingThrough too.