Olympic Golf: Ortiz and Munoz

[UNTLifer]

Currently, Ortiz and Munoz are at the top of the leaderboard.  Ortiz is tied for second at -6 through 16 and Munoz tied for fourth at -5 through 17.

[UNTLifer]

Munoz bogeys 18 to finish at -4, but still a great opening round.

Update: Tied for 8th after round one.

Edited July 29, 2021 by UNTLifer

[UNTLifer]

Ortiz pars 18 to finish in a tie for 2nd at -6 after the first round.

UPDATE: Tied for third.

Edited July 29, 2021 by UNTLifer

[UNTLifer]

https://meangreensports.com/news/2021/7/28/mens-golf-munoz-ortiz-competing-in-olympics.aspx

[outoftown]

Others will finish later or tomorrow, but those are solid rounds to start for the two.

[UNTLifer]

Nice interview with Ortiz following his round.  For those of you interested, this is being carried on the Golf Network.

[outoftown]

This is shaping up to be a promising tournament for the NT alums.

A bit more than midway through the second round Ortiz is -4 for the day, -10 overall. That is a 2 shot lead!

Munoz is -1/-5 tied for tied 13th, essentially still part of the chasing pack.

 

[outoftown]

Ortiz finishes the day at -10 second, one shot behind Schauffele

Munoz is not too far behind at -6. Medals remain a possibility for both of them.

[MCMLXXX]

Ortiz is enjoying his Olympic experience. Some nice quotes.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/31918300/xander-schauffele-big-finish-1-shot-lead-olympic-golf

[UNTLifer]

Ortiz, Schauffele and Matsuyama were scheduled to tee off at 8:18 CST.

Edited July 31, 2021 by UNTLifer

[outoftown]

Good round by Munoz, decent round by Ortiz.

Ortiz came tied for the lead to 18, where he kind of missed second shot and first put, and bogeyed, while Schaufele birdied. he ends the day tied for third, 2 shots behind.

Munoz had a -5 day and is just one shot behind Munoz tied for 5th.

In a beautiful confluence of events, they will both play together tomorrow in the second to last group.

Teeing of CST 8:58 pm if I calculated time differences correctly.

Edited July 31, 2021 by outoftown

[Mean Green Matt]

6 hours ago, outoftown said:

Good round by Munoz, decent round by Ortiz.

Ortiz came tied for the lead to 18, where he kind of missed second shot and first put, and bogeyed, while Schaufele birdied. he ends the day tied for third, 2 shots behind.

Munoz had a -5 day and is just one shot behind Munoz tied for 5th.

In a beautiful confluence of events, they will both play together tomorrow in the second to last group.

Teeing of CST 8:58 pm if I calculated time differences correctly.

Rory Mcilroy gets to be the third wheel. 

[Salsa_Verde]

We are a golf school 

[Mean Green Matt]

2 hours ago, Salsa_Verde said:

We are a golf school 

Only sport we’ve ever had legitimate, division 1 success. Tied for 5th most NCAA golf titles behind Houston, Oklahoma State, Stanford and LSU. 

[UNTLifer]

Munoz was on fire yesterday. As the commentator mentioned, he had a bunch of great holes but he has to cut down on the really bad holes. 
Ortiz was much more steady. His drive on 18 found the rough which led to his second shot being in the green side bunker. He almost holed his sand shot but then just missed his putt coming back. 
It would be incredible if they both could medal. 

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Munoz and Ortiz are done, last group still on the way.

Ortiz had a horror round and is out (+7 on the last 6 holes alone).

Munoz however is tied for third with about 6 others and Matsuyama also tied there still going for 18. He played the last 6 pretty darn well. If Matsuyama doesn't birdie itll go for a playoff for the bronze w about 5 players.

At the top Sabbatini had an incredible -10 (!) and is one behind Schaufelle who is right now in a difficult spot on 18 and has to scramble.

Edit: Definite: 7 man playoff for Bronze, which includes Munoz. Schauffele won.

Edited August 1, 2021 by outoftown

[outoftown]

2:27 am CST: First four have teed off. Munoz and Morikawa with awesome drives. C.T Pan in the bunker, Perreira decent but in the slightly thicker stuff.

2:33 am CST: Perreira at the outer edge of green with second shot, CT Pan with some magic out of the bunker about 15 yards away from hole,  Morikawa about a yard beside CT Pan, Munoz another yard or two closer, about a ten yard put for birdie.

2:36 am CST: Rory teed off into the bunker, Matsuyama: nice shot down the fairway, Casey: hit a tree, in the rough

2:39 am CST: birdie puts: Perreira misses by about a yard, CT Pan just burns the edge and out.

2:40 am CST: Morikawa misses by half a foot.

2:41 am CST: Munoz misses and is a about 4 yards long and then holes that one for par. first 4 all on par thus. second group still has a shot at birdies.

2:43: McIlroy not quite on the green. Matsuayama misses the green too and is in the greenside rough. Casey is out of the woods but still has quite an approach shot to make as third shot. That approach ends about ten yards from the hole, which he will need to hit to stay in the playoff.

2:46 am CST: mcilroy approaches to about within 5 yards where he will have his par put. Matsuyama has trouble finding his ball, its burried that deep. The result is an approach that is about 12 yards from the hole. All guys in the second group ar in some sort of trouble

2:51 am CST: Casey and Morikawa are out, missed their put. McIlroy makes his put 5 Men remain. and will move to hole 10. Now they will play in one group of five

2:54: CT Pan goes first about 10 yards from the hole, Morikawa about 20 yards from hole

2:56 am CT: Perreira hits the rough, but has a nice rollout to about 10 yards from the hole.

2:57 am CT: Munoz is about 20 yards away too, pretty much same spot as morikawa. McIlroy has a slightly unlucky rollout and is also about 20 yards away. None of them has an easy put at all.

3:02 am CST: Munoz gets it to within 2 yards. Morikawa follows that exactly.

3:05 am CST: McIlroys put looks nice, but also stops about 2 yards short.  CT Pan sends it to within an inch and a half. Perreira also about a yard away . On to the next hole (hole 11.)

3:11 am CST: Pan with a nice shot ends up in the slightly thicker stuff. Morikawa also nicely on the fairway, maybe a bit shorter than usual. Perriera far and nicely on the airway. Munoz ends in the bunker 😞 . McIlroy with a nice drive. Munoz is in trouble here.

3:16 am CST: Morikawa punches approach to within 3 yards of the hole. Munoz hits bunker shot with force it is un the edge of the green, about 12 yards from hole.  Given where Morikawa is, heßll have to magic that in. CT Pan also punches it to within 3 yards.

3:19 am CST:  Perreiras shot lands a yard from hole and backspins to about 7 yards away. McIlroy about 5-6 yards away.

Edited August 1, 2021 by outoftown

[outoftown]

3:21 am CST: Munoz misses the chip in. The dream is over. i will stop tickering here. Didn't expect it to take this long anyway.

Pan won bronze about 20 minutes later.

It was a great ride and good advertisement.

Edited August 1, 2021 by outoftown

[SUMG]

Great efforts by both guys. I realize from seeing that Carlos had a +7....he must have really fallen apart on the back nine. Because he was still in contention for a medal....about mid-way through his round. Carlos had a great first Olympics though...as he was in contention all four days. My guess is....when he got a little out of contention....his heart was just no longer really in it....hence the +7. But think about it this way.....the top 3 spots are all that matter....so 42nd is in the same boat as the guy who finished 4th.

Sebastian obviously really did make his mark.....as he battled in the playoff for the bronze. 

These guys both represent their countries so well....and they both represent UNT so well. I wish the Ath. Dept. would try to have them up here for a meet and greet......if somehow possible. 

[UNTLifer]

Agreed @SUMG.  My guess is your strategy just changes in the Olympics.  I am taking a shot in the dark, because they didn't really cover Ortiz was he fell behind, but my guess is that you just go for it when you need birdies to get back in contention.  There is no prize money, so what is there to lose?  You go for the "home run" shot to try and get back up the leaderboard and end up with some crazy "Roy McAvoy" type hole.

Really proud of both young men.  How many universities get to say they had two medal contenders?