T2. Brendon Todd, Rickie Fowler (-6) and 4. Sung Kang (-5)– Fabulous round from Fowler, who has actually not had a lot of them so far in 2020. The swing looked terrific on Thursday, and he said after his round that hes attempted to focus less on his swing tweaks and more on simply playing golf. It worked in Round 1 as he shot his most affordable round on the PGA Tour in 18 months.
Matt Kuchar, Chez Reavie, Maz Homa, Justin Thomas (-4)– J.T. sneaked in under the wire kind of silently on Thursday with Jim “Bones” Mackay on the bag for him over this essential two-week stretch. Thats the formula for a huge Round 2 pop from perhaps the best ball-striker on the PGA Tour given that the restart.
T9. Phil Mickelson, Abraham Ancer, Sergio Garcia, Sungjae Im, Viktor Hovland, Bryson DeChambeau (-3)– Bryson was associated with my preferred moment of Round 1 when he tried to get a complimentary drop since he saw a couple of fire ants “burrowing” close to his ball late in his round. He didnt get the totally free drop, but he was still solid at a much softer course than he saw at Muirfield Village a couple of weeks back. His 67 included 10 missed out on fairways, which implies some sort of correction is probably coming there and something even lower might be on deck on Friday.
T26. Dustin Johnson (-1)– Raise your hand if you saw D.J.– 3 straight rounds of 80-80-78– beating Jon Rahm by one and Rory McIlroy by 4 after making a triple at his penultimate hole. Now all of you who are lying can put your by far. Whats even crazier is that D.J. hit the ball perfectly and put his round together with a cigarette smoking driver. Golf is definitely silly and never more so than when 2 stars, struggling for over a year, rout the No. 1 player on the planet who is coming off his greatest piece of work.
Jon Rahm (E)– Rahm fumed for many of his very first round as the top-ranked player in the world. It was the full Rahm experience on Thursday at TPC Southwind. Hell have to strike the ball much better (like, a lot much better) from tee to green (49th on Thursday) if he desires to be in the mix on Sunday for his second straight competition.
Rory McIlroy (+3)– The thing that has plagued him most given that the PGA Tour restarted in June afflicted him again on Thursday in Round 1. If you dig a little bit deeper, his proximity to the hole wasnt too bad, however he lost the bulk of his strokes on 2 holes on his front nine. Does making birdie at two of his last 3 holes.
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Of course he dropped a filthy little 62 in Round 1 to take a healthy lead over a host of stars. The swing looked terrific on Thursday, and he stated after his round that hes attempted to focus less on his swing tweaks and more on simply playing golf. It worked in Round 1 as he shot his least expensive round on the PGA Tour in 18 months.
Phil Mickelson, Abraham Ancer, Sergio Garcia, Sungjae Im, Viktor Hovland, Bryson DeChambeau (-3)– Bryson was included in my favorite moment of Round 1 when he attempted to get a complimentary drop since he saw a couple of fire ants “burrowing” close to his ball late in his round. Rory McIlroy (+3)– The thing that has actually plagued him most considering that the PGA Tour restarted in June plagued him once again on Thursday in Round 1.
The WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational has a prominent leader, a big-boy board and some big-time humor as Bryson DeChambeau attempted to get a drop from a possibly “hazardous circumstance” (more on that listed below). In 2015s champion is this years leader as Brooks Koepka shot 62 on Thursday to lead Rickie Fowler and Brendon Todd by 2 and Sung Kang by 3. This is not a first-round result anyone always saw coming, but Koepka was by far the most excellent in this small, 78-player field on Thursday in Round 1.
Lets delve into his round and whos chasing as we head into Round 2 on Friday.
Brooks Koepka (-8)– Koepka came in off a sizzling MC-T62-MC stretch that featured some of the worst golf hes played in a 12-month stretch of quite terrible golf (by his requirements). Of course he dropped a filthy little 62 in Round 1 to take a healthy lead over a host of stars. Hes apparently sniffing the PGA Championship next week– where hes looking to end up being the first gamer to win 3 in a row in nearly 100 years– since he was called in on Thursday in a sustainable way (from tee to green).
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