front nine

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A double bogey and bogey in a three-hole span on the front nine dropped him into fourth place, two strokes off the lead.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Fleetwood had two bogeys and a birdie on the front nine but settled down from there.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

She closed the front nine with back-to-back birdies and added birdies at 12, 14 and the par-five 15th before a bogey at the wind-battered 17th.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

Hatton, who like Westwood, is yet to win a major, played the front nine in 33 and closed with seven successive pars to end the day one off the pace.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

The area gained in this vast operation was a front nine miles long to an extreme depth of five miles.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)