Wyndham Championship: Jason Dufner Rebounds with a 66 in First Round

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Published: August 19, 2011

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Less than a week removed from his collapse in the final round of the PGA Championship where he surrendered a four-shot lead at the Atlanta Athletic Club to Keegan Bradley, Jason Dufner has seemingly put that out of his thoughts very quickly.

Of course, an opening round of four-under-par 66 at the Wyndham Championship at Sedgefield Country Club will help you do that.

“It’s probably a good thing to play this week and get last week out of my system,” Dufner told the PGA Tour in an interview after his round. “I was glad to see Thursday come.”

Dufner began the "healing process" at Sedgefield going off in the afternoon wave of players.

He got off to a good start with two birdies on the front-nine to go out in 33. He added three birdies on the back-nine with his lone bogey coming at the par-three 12th hole.

After his first round at the Wyndham Championship, Dufner was asked in his press conference what he thought of the media response after the PGA Championship and if it had been fair.



 "A little bit. I don't really know what fair would be. I think all the questions that have been asked from me have been pretty honest, and people are trying to do their job. They want to, I guess, get in my head and see where I'm at, and I feel like I'm pretty confident and pretty good about it.

"I don't see how you can see anything negative from losing in a playoff in a major, other than not winning. There's a lot of good things that happened last week. I think I showed a lot of people in the world that I can play some pretty good golf, and I probably showed myself that I can play a lot of good golf."

He most certainly did show that he could play some really good golf last week.

Dufner may have not won the PGA Championship, but from his demeanor, honesty and play after that incident coming down the stretch at the Atlanta Athletic Cl...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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