Davis is teeing it up at the WM Phoenix Open this week and after posting -2 across the first two rounds, the Australian will see the weekend after making the cut.<\/p>\n
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However, it could have been so much better had the golfing gods been a little kinder to Davis on the 17th hole.<\/p>\n
A short par four, Davis went right at the green with his driver, landing his ball on the front of the green before watching it trickle narrowly past the hole.<\/p>\n
Davis was left with a small, four foot putt for eagle which he slotted.<\/p>\n
Had the tee shot gone in, Davis would have been celebrating the first hole in one on a par four on the PGA Tour in 25 years.<\/p>\n
This is how close Cam Davis’ tee shot on the 322-yard par 4 was to a hole-in-one.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is aggressive over there \u2026 this is fantastic,\u201d commentator Taylor Zarzour said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have not had an ace on a Par 4 since Andrew McGee did it decades ago on the PGA Tour \u2013 and that\u2019s about as close we\u2019ve seen for eagle.\u201d<\/p>\n
PGA winner Robert Damron added: \u201cEven par, what a great time to pull off a shot like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Remarkably, it was on the exact same hole back in 2001 when American Andrew Magee achieved the feat \u2013 the only instance a golfer has marked \u20181\u2019 on a par four in tour history. <\/p>\n
Davis will feature in Rounds 3 and 4 of the Phoenix Open but at -2, he\u2019s nine shots behind the leader Ryo Hisatsune and needing a minor miracle to win.<\/p>\n
Hisatsune rode a back-nine binge to an eight-under par 63 and a one-shot lead over fellow Japanese Hideki Matsuyama.<\/p>\n
Cam Davis of Australia plays his shot from the 13th tee. Picture: Justin Edmonds\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Hisatsune, a 23-year-old chasing his first PGA Tour title, picked up six strokes in the space of five holes on the back nine at TPC Scottsdale building an 11-under par total of 131.<\/p>\n
Matsuyama, who won back-to-back Phoenix Open titles in 2016 and 2017, teed off on 10 and surged up the leaderboard with six straight birdies from the 13th through the 18th.<\/p>\n
He admitted that the huge crowds can make for a nervy experience but Matsuyama, who has five top-five finishes and five top-10s in Phoenix, said he loves the atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe energy that\u2019s out there, so many fans cheering you on,\u201d he said. \u201cYou hit a bad shot, they\u2019ll boo you and there is some pressure, but I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Min Woo Lee is the best placed Australian through two rounds. Lee carded an impressive -6 par 65 in the second round to be -6 for the tournament and five shots off the lead.<\/p>\n
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler bounced back from a uncharacteristic over-par opening round. <\/p>\n
Golf is hard… Even for the World No.1 | 01:35<\/p>\n
In danger of missing the halfway cut after a first-round 73, Scheffler bounced back with six birdies in a six-under 65 and at four-under made the cut with three strokes to spare.<\/p>\n
Scheffler has now made 66 consecutive cuts, the longest active streak on the tour.<\/p>\n
Scheffler, seven back going into the weekend, won the 2022 Phoenix Open after trailing by nine at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n
Five-time major-winner Brooks Koepka missed the cut in his second tournament since returning to the PGA Tour from the breakaway LIV Golf league.<\/p>\n
Koepka followed an opening 75 with a two-under 69 and at two-over par missed the cut that fell at one-under.<\/p>\n
\u2014 with AFP<\/p>\n
LEADERBOARD \u2013 ROUND 2<\/p>\n
Ryo Hisatsune -11<\/p>\n
Hideki Matsuyama -10<\/p>\n
Chris Gotterup -8<\/p>\n
Pierceson Coody -8<\/p>\n
Akshay Bhatia -7<\/p>\n
Si Woo Kim -7<\/p>\n
John Parry -7<\/p>\n
Sahith Theegala -7<\/p>\n
Matt Fitzpatrick -7<\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
MW Lee (AUS) -6<\/p>\n
Scottie Scheffler -4<\/p>\n
Cam Davis (AUS) -2<\/p>\n
Missed Cut<\/p>\n
K. Vilips (AUS) +1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussie golfer Cam Davis has gone desperately close to recording an incredibly rare feat, not achieved on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[2095,5888,64,172573,63,11096,755,237727,237729,237728,6940,6937,2041,2067,29169,237725,85,2508,237726,237724,2614,42320],"class_list":["post-463649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-au","tag-aussie-golfer","tag-australia","tag-daniel-nuttall","tag-golf","tag-golfing-gods","tag-golfing-history","tag-hole-back","tag-john-parry","tag-matt-fitzpatrick","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-phoenix","tag-rare-hole","tag-sports","tag-tee-shot","tag-tour-history","tag-uncharacteristic-over-par-opening","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-woo-kim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}