Emiliano Grillo’s slam-dunk hole-in-one on the long-lasting sixteenth sparked wild scenes on the PGA Tour’s WM Phoenix Open, the place Thomas Detry carved out a two-stroke lead in spherical two.
Grillo landed a 155-yard ace on one in every of golf’s most raucous holes as his ball rolled across the cup a couple of instances earlier than lastly dropping.
The Argentinian ran across the tee field to rejoice together with his caddie and enjoying companions Rafael Campos and Seamus Energy.
The followers went usually wild, too, hurling beer and different drinks onto the tee and inexperienced after witnessing the primary ace on the outlet for the reason that 2022 version, when Sam Ryder and Carlos Ortiz achieved the feat.
Grillo’s hole-in-one got here amid a two-under 69, taking him to the identical quantity for the match and simply contained in the reduce line.
Detry leads in Phoenix after seven-under second spherical
Chief Detry got here near acing 16, too, touchdown his ball to inside two toes earlier than making birdie.
That was one in every of eight positive aspects on a seven-under day for the Belgian, who reeled off three in a row from the ninth and closed with two extra birdies to succeed in 12 underneath for the occasion.
Alex Smalley and Michael Kim are joint second on 10 underneath with Tom Kim, Jordan Spieth – who eagled 13 and 15 – and Christiaan Bezuidenhout a stroke additional again.
Justin Thomas is 4 pictures off the lead in Arizona
Justin Thomas is amongst a five-strong group on eight underneath, one forward of world No 1 Scottie Scheffler, who shot a blemish-free five-under 66 in Arizona on Friday.
Scheffler returned to motion ultimately week’s Pebble Seashore Professional-Am – an occasion received by Rory McIlroy – for the primary time since he injured his hand getting ready Christmas dinner.
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