Corey Conners hopes he and Maple Leafs can turn 'horrendous' scores around quick
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Corey Conners hopes both he and his favourite hockey team will be playing this weekend.
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Canada's top-ranked golfer opened his PGA Championship at Quail Hollow with a two-over par 73 and the normally stoic Conners was visibly unhappy with his opening round.
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'I'm really disappointed with the score. I felt like I hit the ball fine,' he said after the round. 'I gave myself some looks, or got myself in decent positions, just scored the ball horrendously.'
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Horrendous is a word that could be easily thrown around for Conners' favourite hockey team, the Toronto Maple Leafs, after Wednesday's 6-1 humiliation has them facing elimination on Friday night in Florida versus the Panthers.
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Conners seemed even less interested in re-hashing the Leafs' Game 5 embarrassment than discussing his own problems.
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'I don't really want to talk about the Leafs last night,' he said. 'Hopefully they can regroup, and I can regroup, and we can both play well on the weekend.'
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As for the season's second major in Charlotte, Conners will need to get things going on the greens where he missed numerous putts on Thursday, including a three-foot bogey putt on the par-3 17th where he made double bogey, and a round-closing nine-foot birdie miss at the par-4 ninth hole.
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'Anytime I had a decent look for birdie I wasn't able to knock it in, and I had some sloppy bogeys throughout the round,' he said. 'I definitely felt like the putter let me down and I couldn't get any momentum going with that.'
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