Siwoo Kim and Seongjae Lim ranked 40th in Even Par… Ahn Byung-hoon lost 8 strokes only in the 17th hole and was in the lowest place.
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = 2008 Winner Sergio Garcia (Spain) on the first day of the Players Championship (total prize money of $15 million), called the ‘5th Major Tournament’ of the PGA Tour Went out.
Garcia captured 2 Eagles and 4 birdies in the first round of the Players Championship held at TPC Sawgrass (par 72, 7,189 yards) in Pontevedra Beach, Florida, USA on the 12th (Korean time), and blocked the Bogie with 1 I hit a 7-under-par 65.
With more than 20 people going on the next day without finishing the first round at sunset, Garcia put her name on the top of the leaderboard.
It is two shots from second place Brian Harman (US 5 under par 67).
Garcia, who has competed in the Players Championship since 2000, won the 2008 championship and runner-up in 2007 and 2015 several times, made the best performance in the first round of the tournament on this day, winning 12 total PGA Tour titles following the Sanderson Palms Championship in October last year. I took on the challenge.
Garcia, who started from the 10th hole, reduced 3 strokes in the first half with a birdie on the 15th hole (par 4) and an Iglo on the 16th hole (par 5), and in the second half, a birdie on the 7th to 8th holes and a 9th hole (par 5) ) He showed his back feeling with Eagle and raised the rankings.
After Garcia and Harman, Matthew Fitzpatrick (England), Corey Connors (Canada) and Shane Laurie (Ireland) tied for third with a 4-under-par 68.
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Bryson Dishambo (USA), who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week and the only two wins on the PGA Tour this season, was tied for sixth with a 3-under-par 69.
De Chambo, who is driving the topic of golf with his’super long hit’, flew 333 yards with a driver from the 16th hole (par 5, 515 yards) to settle on the fairway. I caught a birdie. Including this, he has 6 buddies and 3 bogies.
Jordan Spice and Patrick Reed are tied for 12th (2 under par 70 strokes), and Phil Miculson and Justin Thomas (above the United States) are tied for 26th (1 under par 71 strokes).
World No. 1 Dustin Johnson (USA) finished the first round with 1 over-par 73 strokes and a tie for 60th.
Last year, due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the tournament was canceled after the first round. It was sluggish with 79 strokes.
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Among Korean players, Kim Si-woo (26), Lim Seong-jae (23), and Lee Gyeong-hoon (30) ranked 40th with 72 even pars, leaving the best results.
Kim Si-woo, the winner of this competition in 2017, reached a tie for second place by hitting 7 under par 65 in the first round of last year, but has been unable to continue the momentum due to the cancellation of the tournament since.
In the first round, returning after a year, Kim Si-woo started from hole 10 and caught an eagle from hole 16, but double watched after he plunged a tee shot into the water at hole 17 (par 3), the’signature hole’ of the Players Championship. I couldn’t reduce the overall at-bats by writing.
There was also an example from hole 1 (par 4), but Kim Si-woo protected Even par with a birdie on the last hole 9.
Lim Seong-jae, who runs 19th in the FedEx Cup ranking, also struck an even par with two buddies and two bogies.
Im Seong-jae, who recovered from the first hole, the 1st hole (par 4), with a 9th hole birdie, lost one stroke in the 13th hole (par 3), but recorded a birdie with a nice tee shot at about 1m in the 17th hole. I pledged the second round.
Kang Seong-hoon (34) finished 110th with a 4-over par with 76 strokes.
Ahn Byung-hoon (30) was tied for 150th with an 11 over par, 83 hits, losing 8 hits by falling into the water four times only in the 17th hole.
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