SAN DIEGO — Yes, Tony Finau got hot on Friday. His fuse, however, was lit a day earlier when a birdie putt on his last hole on Torrey Pines’ North Course slipped him into the weekend field.
“Sometimes making the cut on the number is almost new life,” Finau said after firing an 8-under 64 to vault him from tied for 54th all the way into third place after the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open. “Especially, the whole day I was on the outside looking in. That’s pretty much how I looked at it. I had to … play a really nice back nine yesterday just to be playing the weekend, so I felt like I had new life.”
He didn’t waste it.
