Valero Texas 2022 R2
Mar 31 - April 03
TPC San Antonio (Oaks Course), San Antonio, Texas
$8,600,000
Round 1, Round 3, Round 4
His lowest round @ValeroTXOpen since 2010. @RyanPalmerPGA leads by 2. pic.twitter.com/3gPDSxgIdy
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 1, 2022
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Ryan Palmer shot a bogey-free 66 on Friday to take a two-shot lead into the weekend at the Valero Texas Open.
Valero Texas 2022 R2
"I got lucky on 1 today, great break where my ball didn't end up in the junk. And it's a golf course, if you get it offline, you're going to struggle. I was able to keep the ball in front of me. When I've missed fairways, I've gotten fortunate breaks I think. So the weekend, it's a matter of just avoiding those big misses and you keep the ball in front of you on this golf course, you have a chance to play well.
"Bogey-free on this golf course is good any day, but when you throw in the winds we had, it makes it that much more special."
Showing off his touch 🤌
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) April 1, 2022
Tap-in birdie gives Texan @RyanPalmerPGA the outright lead. pic.twitter.com/MtLkbOFNkW
Valero Texas 2022 R2
The American has four PGA Tour titles to his name from 2004 to the last one at the 2019 Zurich Classic of New Orleans.
"I'm excited the way I'm driving the ball again. I spent the last month and a half really struggling and my results have kind of shown. I'm able to take the left side of the golf course out of play now and I brought it here this week and it's showing. My driver's back to where it was a year ago, my game's where it was I feel like a year ago, my mind and it's showing."
Valero Texas 2022 R2
South African Dylan Frittelli also produced a bogey-free 66 to move into a share of second place at 8-under alongside Americans Kevin Chappell ( bogey-free, 65) and Matt Kuchar (69).
Overnight leader Robert MacIntyre of Scotland signed for another 69 and slipped down into a share of 10th place alongside England's David Skinns (70) and American Scott Gutschewski (68).
Valero Texas 2022 R2
| Pos. | Player | To Par | R1 | R2 | Total |
| 1 | Ryan Palmer | -10 | 68 | 66 | 134 |
| T2 | Kevin Chappell | -8 | 71 | 65 | 136 |
| T2 | Matt Kuchar | -8 | 67 | 69 | 136 |
| T2 | Dylan Frittelli | -8 | 70 | 66 | 136 |
| T5 | J.J. Spaun | -7 | 67 | 70 | 137 |
| T5 | Lucas Glover | -7 | 71 | 66 | 137 |
| T5 | Charles Howell III | -7 | 70 | 67 | 137 |
| T5 | Gary Woodland | -7 | 70 | 67 | 137 |
| T5 | Brendon Todd | -7 | 68 | 69 | 137 |
| T10 | Scott Gutschewski | -6 | 70 | 68 | 138 |
| T10 | Robert MacIntyre | -6 | 69 | 69 | 138 |
| T10 | David Skinns | -6 | 68 | 70 | 138 |
| T13 | Henrik Norlander | -5 | 68 | 71 | 139 |
| T13 | Brandt Snedeker | -5 | 73 | 66 | 139 |
| T13 | Beau Hossler | -5 | 73 | 66 | 139 |
| T13 | Doc Redman | -5 | 69 | 70 | 139 |
| T13 | J.T. Poston | -5 | 70 | 69 | 139 |
| T13 | Henrik Stenson | -5 | 70 | 69 | 139 |
| T13 | Jhonattan Vegas | -5 | 71 | 68 | 139 |
| T13 | Peter Uihlein | -5 | 68 | 71 | 139 |
| T13 | Rasmus Hojgaard | -5 | 66 | 73 | 139 |
| T22 | Jared Wolfe | -4 | 72 | 68 | 140 |
| T22 | Davis Riley | -4 | 70 | 70 | 140 |
| T22 | Adam Hadwin | -4 | 70 | 70 | 140 |
| T22 | Scott Stallings | -4 | 68 | 72 | 140 |
| T22 | Troy Merritt | -4 | 69 | 71 | 140 |
| T27 | Ben Martin | -3 | 69 | 72 | 141 |
| T27 | Denny McCarthy | -3 | 67 | 74 | 141 |
| T27 | Bill Haas | -3 | 70 | 71 | 141 |
| T27 | Chesson Hadley | -3 | 71 | 70 | 141 |
| T27 | Kevin Streelman | -3 | 70 | 71 | 141 |
| T27 | Mito Pereira | -3 | 71 | 70 | 141 |
| T27 | Aaron Rai | -3 | 67 | 74 | 141 |
| T27 | Hudson Swafford | -3 | 71 | 70 | 141 |
| T27 | Corey Conners | -3 | 70 | 71 | 141 |
| T27 | Lanto Griffin | -3 | 75 | 66 | 141 |
| T27 | Nate Lashley | -3 | 71 | 70 | 141 |
| T27 | Tony Finau | -3 | 70 | 71 | 141 |
| T27 | Luke Donald | -3 | 71 | 70 | 141 |
| T27 | Patrick Rodgers | -3 | 70 | 71 | 141 |
| T27 | Richard Bland | -3 | 70 | 71 | 141 |
| T27 | Anirban Lahiri | -3 | 68 | 73 | 141 |
| T27 | Russell Knox | -3 | 65 | 76 | 141 |
| T27 | William McGirt | -3 | 71 | 70 | 141 |
| T27 | Si Woo Kim | -3 | 69 | 72 | 141 |
| T27 | Matthias Schwab | -3 | 69 | 72 | 141 |
| T47 | Vince Whaley | -2 | 70 | 72 | 142 |
| T47 | Peter Malnati | -2 | 71 | 71 | 142 |
| T47 | Jim Herman | -2 | 69 | 73 | 142 |
| T47 | Chad Ramey | -2 | 74 | 68 | 142 |
| T47 | Jordan Spieth | -2 | 72 | 70 | 142 |
| T47 | Richy Werenski | -2 | 70 | 72 | 142 |
| T47 | Keegan Bradley | -2 | 71 | 71 | 142 |
| T47 | Andrew Putnam | -2 | 71 | 71 | 142 |
| T47 | Chris Kirk | -2 | 70 | 72 | 142 |
| T47 | Seung-Yul Noh | -2 | 70 | 72 | 142 |
| T47 | Luke List | -2 | 68 | 74 | 142 |
| T47 | Adam Long | -2 | 72 | 70 | 142 |
| T47 | Brendan Steele | -2 | 68 | 74 | 142 |
| T47 | John Huh | -2 | 69 | 73 | 142 |
| T47 | Maverick McNealy | -2 | 70 | 72 | 142 |
| T62 | Zach Johnson | -1 | 72 | 71 | 143 |
| T62 | Aaron Baddeley | -1 | 69 | 74 | 143 |
| T62 | Sahith Theegala | -1 | 77 | 66 | 143 |
| T62 | Greyson Sigg | -1 | 73 | 70 | 143 |
| T62 | Roger Sloan | -1 | 74 | 69 | 143 |
| T62 | Wyndham Clark | -1 | 73 | 70 | 143 |
| T62 | C.T. Pan | -1 | 69 | 74 | 143 |
| T62 | Matt Jones | -1 | 68 | 75 | 143 |
| T62 | Martin Laird | -1 | 70 | 73 | 143 |
| T62 | James Hahn | -1 | 69 | 74 | 143 |
| T62 | Austin Smotherman | -1 | 68 | 75 | 143 |
| CUT | Trey Mullinax | Par | 72 | 72 | 144 |
| CUT | Adam Schenk | Par | 70 | 74 | 144 |
| CUT | Brice Garnett | Par | 71 | 73 | 144 |
| CUT | Camilo Villegas | Par | 72 | 72 | 144 |
| CUT | Austin Cook | Par | 71 | 73 | 144 |
| CUT | Pat Perez | Par | 72 | 72 | 144 |
| CUT | Dawie van der Walt | Par | 73 | 71 | 144 |
| CUT | Dylan Wu | Par | 71 | 73 | 144 |
| CUT | Logan McAllister (a) | Par | 73 | 71 | 144 |
| CUT | Jason Day | Par | 74 | 70 | 144 |
| CUT | Adam Svensson | Par | 72 | 72 | 144 |
| CUT | Ian Poulter | +1 | 71 | 74 | 145 |
| CUT | Cameron Champ | +1 | 72 | 73 | 145 |
| CUT | Michael Gligic | +1 | 69 | 76 | 145 |
| CUT | Stephan Jaeger | +1 | 71 | 74 | 145 |
| CUT | Kramer Hickok | +1 | 70 | 75 | 145 |
| CUT | Rory McIlroy | +1 | 72 | 73 | 145 |
| CUT | Ryan Brehm | +1 | 75 | 70 | 145 |
| CUT | Martin Trainer | +1 | 74 | 71 | 145 |
| CUT | Shawn Stefani | +1 | 74 | 71 | 145 |
| CUT | Seth Reeves | +1 | 73 | 72 | 145 |
| CUT | Max McGreevy | +1 | 73 | 72 | 145 |
| CUT | Charley Hoffman | +2 | 72 | 74 | 146 |
| CUT | Branden Grace | +2 | 74 | 72 | 146 |
| CUT | Jonas Blixt | +2 | 74 | 72 | 146 |
| CUT | Andrew Novak | +2 | 76 | 70 | 146 |
| CUT | Kyle Stanley | +2 | 73 | 73 | 146 |
| CUT | Robert Streb | +2 | 71 | 75 | 146 |
| CUT | Rickie Fowler | +2 | 72 | 74 | 146 |
| CUT | Nick Taylor | +2 | 72 | 74 | 146 |
| CUT | Doug Ghim | +2 | 73 | 73 | 146 |
| CUT | Min Woo Lee | +2 | 74 | 72 | 146 |
| CUT | Nick Hardy | +2 | 76 | 70 | 146 |
| CUT | Brian Stuard | +3 | 73 | 74 | 147 |
| CUT | Matthew NeSmith | +3 | 74 | 73 | 147 |
| CUT | Patton Kizzire | +3 | 71 | 76 | 147 |
| CUT | Paul Barjon | +3 | 74 | 73 | 147 |
| CUT | Jimmy Walker | +4 | 78 | 70 | 148 |
| CUT | Sam Ryder | +4 | 77 | 71 | 148 |
| CUT | Curtis Thompson | +4 | 75 | 73 | 148 |
| CUT | Jake Kevorkian | +4 | 72 | 76 | 148 |
| CUT | Brandon Hagy | +4 | 76 | 72 | 148 |
| CUT | Hayden Buckley | +4 | 75 | 73 | 148 |
| CUT | Takumi Kanaya | +4 | 77 | 71 | 148 |
| CUT | Garrick Higgo | +4 | 75 | 73 | 148 |
| CUT | Joseph Bramlett | +4 | 73 | 75 | 148 |
| CUT | Lee Hodges | +5 | 74 | 75 | 149 |
| CUT | Sung Kang | +5 | 75 | 74 | 149 |
| CUT | Alex Smalley | +5 | 74 | 75 | 149 |
| CUT | Taylor Moore | +5 | 73 | 76 | 149 |
| CUT | Bryson DeChambeau | +5 | 73 | 76 | 149 |
| CUT | Graeme McDowell | +5 | 74 | 75 | 149 |
| CUT | Lee Westwood | +5 | 73 | 76 | 149 |
| CUT | Nick Watney | +6 | 72 | 78 | 150 |
| CUT | Guido Migliozzi | +6 | 78 | 72 | 150 |
| CUT | Kelly Kraft | +6 | 72 | 78 | 150 |
| CUT | Ben Kohles | +6 | 72 | 78 | 150 |
| CUT | David Lipsky | +6 | 78 | 72 | 150 |
| CUT | Hank Lebioda | +7 | 78 | 73 | 151 |
| CUT | Ludvig Aberg (a) | +7 | 78 | 73 | 151 |
| CUT | Bronson Burgoon | +7 | 74 | 77 | 151 |
| CUT | Harry Higgs | +7 | 75 | 76 | 151 |
| CUT | K.H. Lee | +8 | 75 | 77 | 152 |
| CUT | Samuel Saunders | +8 | 75 | 77 | 152 |
| CUT | Tyler Duncan | +8 | 70 | 82 | 152 |
| CUT | Justin Lower | +9 | 75 | 78 | 153 |
| CUT | Matt Wallace | +9 | 78 | 75 | 153 |
| WD | Hideki Matsuyama | 74 | 35 | 109 | |
| WD | Kevin Tway | 76 | 76 | ||
| WD | Chez Reavie | 77 | 77 | ||
| WD | Ben Kern | 77 | 18 | 95 | |
| WD | Danny Lee | 30 | 30 |
