PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Taylor Moore stood on the practice putting green and casually checked some messages on his phone. The 29-year-old had just turned in the best score of the day at the Valspar Championship and at 10 under was sitting atop the field.
With his fiancee and her father, who had surprised him after his round, Moore waited out of the spotlight, about 200 yards behind the stands where Jordan Spieth and Adam Schenk were playing the final hole at the Innisbrook Resort.
“That 20 minutes or whatever it was felt like a long time,” Moore said. “I didn’t have a monitor or a TV to watch either, so I was getting updates from some of the staff out there. I was really just trying to stay loose and get in competition mode just in case I had to go back out to the 18th tee and try to win this thing in a playoff.”
