After Thursday's birdie-fest in fourballs, Friday foursomes brought a much bigger challenge for the two-man teams at the 2025 Zurich Classic at TPC Louisiana. Where fourballs is just about going out and trying to make birdies on your own ball,

Defending champions Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry shot a better-ball 64 Thursday but are six shots back of leaders Isaiah Salinda and Kevin Velo.

It's never a good thing to have too many swing thoughts in your head over the ball. It's even worse when they're of the negative variety. This is true even among the best players in the world, something we saw play out on Wednesday at the Zurich Classic.