This might be one of the stranger superstitions to uphold if William Mouw buys into what happened to his putting in the second round of the ISCO Championship on Friday.<\/p>\n
Mouw, the tournament\u2019s defending champion, only made 50 feet of putts in Thursday\u2019s opening round and ranked 116th in the field in strokes gained on the greens. In search of some different mojo, he half-joked with his caddie that the flat stick was so cold that he was going to put it into boiling water.<\/p>\n
Then \u2026 he actually did it, and the result was he rolled in 105 feet of putts, making five birdies on his front nine, and finished with a seven-under 63 at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Ky., to sit solo sixth at nine under heading into the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI put my putting in hot water last night and it stayed hot. I woke up with it hot out of the water and stayed hot all round. That was nice,\u201d Mouw said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to do it tonight, too,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Mouw played the first two ISCO rounds with Lucas Glover, who is the solo leader at 13 under. Glover said he wasn\u2019t aware of Mouw\u2019s overnight treatment of his putter.<\/p>\n
\u201cHuh, I thought it was a different putter. The other one looked black, this one silver,\u201d Glover said. \u201cI thought it was a different putter altogether. I didn\u2019t ask because he made everything, so I didn\u2019t want to mess up the mojo.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve thrown a few and kicked a few and broke a few but never boiled one. \u2026 I get it. He did, it worked. So he might be melted by tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mouw, 25, seized his first tour win in the ISCO last year by firing a 61 in the final round. This year, after a rough start on the West Coast Swing, he posted a season-best T-6 in the Cognizant. He\u2019s 105th in the FedEx Cup standings and ranks 132nd in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This might be one of the stranger superstitions to uphold if William Mouw buys into what happened to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,12928,144,82,14317,2137],"class_list":["post-34675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-golf","tag-isco-championship","tag-pga-tour","tag-story","tag-tour-winner-did-what-to-his-putter-before-shooting-63","tag-william-mouw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}