Order
emerges
from
chaos.
September
1,
2023
by
Kingsley
Flett
in
Analysis,
Recap
with
comments
Anttila
at
the
2023
Pro
World
Championships.
Photo:
DGPT.
It
wasn’t
chaos
at
all
really.
Jeff
Spring
and
his
team
at
Smugglers
Notch
did
a
fine
job
of
handling
the
curve
ball
that
Wednesday’s
weather
threw
at
the
MPO
field.
The
confusion
was
for
the
spectators
following
the
action
and
the
broadcasters
working
to
bring
them
the
story.
Instead
of
filming
a
lead
card,
chase
card
and
maybe
one
or
two
players
elsewhere
who
were
on
a
hot
streak,
the
DGN
crew
had
to
spread
out
over
the
whole
course.
We
had
leaders
playing
their
final
holes
and
contenders
charging
up
from
the
middle
of
the
field
–
all
while
the
feature
cards
had
barely
commenced
their
rounds.
One
of
those
charging
from
the
middle
of
the
pack
was
Niklas
Anttila.
The
young
Finn,
on
the
back
of
90%
fairway
hits
and
100%
circle
1
putting,
kept
a
clean
card
and
scored
12
birdies
to
take
the
outright
lead
from
Grady
Shue
on
hole
17,
after
his
hyzer
on
the
dogleg
left
had
sailed
wide
left
and
landed
out
of
bounds
but
managed
to
roll
back
inside
the
circle
to
give
him
a
birdie
putt.
After
taking
the
standard
wide,
hyzer
route
over
the
right-side
OB
on
hole
18
and
landing
the
disc
slightly
left
of
the
center
of
the
fairway,
Anttila
opted
to
take
the
inside
route,
to
the
right
of
the
guardian
tree,
delicately
weaving
a
forehand
shot
that
flexed
through
the
gap
and
landed
just
beyond
the
basket,
but
caught
an
edge,
stood
up,
and
rolled
out
of
bounds.
The
bogey
was
Anttila’s
only
blemish
for
the
day
and
brought
him
back
to
a
share
of
the
lead
with
Shue.
“I
just
love
this
place,”
Anttila
said
after
the
round.
“It’s
almost
made
for
my
style
of
golf.
You
just
need
to
be
on
the
fairway
and
make
your
putts
and
that’s
all
that
matters
here.”
I
seems
like
Niklas
wasn’t
the
only
player
feeling
an
affinity
for
the
storied
Fox
Run
track,
with
several
players
making
huge
climbs
up
the
leaderboard
despite
the
slightly
disjointed
schedule
for
the
day.
Co-leader
Grady
Shue,
like
Anttila,
climbed
27
places,
while
Ricky
Wysocki
and
Chris
Dickerson
both
climbed
66
spots
to
make
the
lead
card
for
round
three.
Wysocki
finished
the
round
on
a
confident
note
by
burying
a
dangerous
40-foot
putt
with
OB
close
behind
the
basket
on
hole
18.
“It
feels
like
for
me,
that
Fox
Run
is
the
easier
course
to
score
on,”
said
Wysocki
after
the
round.
“I
was
able
to
get
on
a
run
and
took
full
advantage
of
it.
Playing
two
rounds
on
the
feature
card
with
the
cameras
reminded
me
that
I
can
play
well
under
the
pressure.
It’s
something
I
thrive
in.
I
feel
like
10
or
12
under
is
totally
manageable
for
me
at
Brewster
without
too
much
risk,
and
then
it’s
game
on
at
Fox
for
the
final
two
rounds.
There’s
lots
of
birdies
to
be
had
as
I
showed
today.”
The
chase
card
for
today’s
third
round
reads
like
a
roll
call
for
generation
next,
with
Anthony
Barela,
Cole
Redalen,
and
Gannon
Buhr
all
sharing
third
place
with
Wysocki
and
Dickerson,
one
stroke
off
the
lead
at
17-under.
Then
there’s
the
slightly
unknown
factor
of
Raven
Newsom,
who
made
the
chase
card
from
the
B
pool
—
which
played
the
two
courses
in
reverse
order
—
a
further
throw
back.
Then,
where
do
we
draw
the
line
between
those
who
are
still
in
the
pack
of
contenders
and
those
who
have
fallen
away?
Five
strokes
back?
Six?
Eight?
With
54
holes
left
to
play,
many
of
them
scorable,
it
doesn’t
pay
to
rule
too
much
of
the
field
out.
If
we
say
it’s
eight
strokes
back,
that
takes
us
to
31st
place,
and
in
that
group
are
plenty
of
people
who
are
capable
of
surging
into
contention:
Paul
McBeth,
Calvin
Heimburg,
Kyle
Klein,
Matthew
Orum,
Isaac
Robinson,
and
the
man
who
can
seemingly
win
from
anywhere,
Simon
Lizotte.
We
are
being
reminded,
yet
again,
of
what
makes
the
Pro
Worlds
such
a
riveting
spectacle.
Kristin
in
Control
In
the
FPO,
it
was
primarily
the
Kristin
Tattar
show
again,
as
she
ground
on
mercilessly
with
her
mistake-free
golf
in
the
more
open
but
windier
conditions
on
Fox
Run
Meadows.
Tattar
kept
a
clean
sheet
in
her
7-under-par
round
to
go
to
15-under
for
the
tournament
and
extend
her
lead
over
Missy
Gannon
to
eight
strokes.
But
the
score
doesn’t
tell
the
full
story
of
that
round
and
what
might
yet
come
to
pass.
Early
mistakes
from
cardmates
Valerie
Mandujano
and
Kat
Mertsch,
who
leaked
a
combined
seven
strokes
in
the
first
five
holes,
looked
all
the
more
devastating
when
compared
to
Tattar’s
methodical
1-under
par
for
the
same
stretch.
It
looked,
from
the
outside,
that
this
contrast
in
fortunes
was
eroding
the
confidence
of
the
underdogs.
It
is
easy
to
read
too
much
into
these
things,
but
they
both
looked
decidedly
jittery.
Then,
when
Missy
Gannon
let
her
upshot
on
hole
5
skip
into
the
water,
it
looked
like
the
nervousness
and
pessimism
may
have
been
contagious.
On
the
very
next
hole,
the
265-foot
hole
6,
there
was
a
fresh
tailwind
that
threatened
to
push
any
aggressive
shots
long
or
cause
an
uncommitted
throw
to
fade
early,
both
into
OB.
Gannon
didn’t
let
the
previous
hole
or
the
wind
diminish
her
intent
though.
She
threw
a
turnover
shot
hard.
The
disc
made
the
turn
around
the
mid-fairway
tree
and
slammed
into
the
small
tower
at
the
base
of
the
basket.
It
looked
as
if
Missy
had
decided
to
fight.
Allowing
Tattar
to
get
a
comfortable
enough
lead
to
play
her
own
unruffled
game
with
no
pressure
would
be
to
give
the
tournament
away
in
the
second
round.
Gannon
decided
to
make
Tattar
feel
at
least
some
pressure.
She
proceed
to
score
seven
birdies
in
the
next
nine
holes
and
reduce
Tattar’s
lead
by
a
stroke.
A
couple
of
late
mistakes
leading
to
bogeys
—
including
a
painful
three
putt
on
hole
18
when
Gannon’s
birdie
putt
into
the
headwind
got
pushed
up
and
over
the
top
of
the
basket,
just
ticking
metal
as
it
sailed
down
the
hill
—
allowed
Tattar’s
lead
to
stretch
back
out
to
eight
strokes
by
the
end
of
play.
Through
her
play
in
the
middle
of
the
round,
though,
Missy
had
let
Kristin
know
she
was
there
and
that
she
would
not
go
down
easily.
The
bell
for
round
three
rings
in
the
morning
at
Brewster
Ridge
for
FPO
and
in
the
afternoon
for
MPO.
FPO
seems
to
have
already
become
a
two-woman
fight,
while
the
MPO
is
still
a
melee.
Let’s
get
ready
to
rumble.
