Jon Rahm28 years old and world number 1, has begun the defense of his title corresponding to Mexico Open which will be played through Sunday on the golf course’s par 71 Vidanta Vallarta.
The Basque golfer, recent champion of Augustan Masters and leader of FedEx Cupsigned the first card of 67 strokes thanks to six birdies and two bogeys that temporarily placed him in the top-20 of the classification.
Even with many players in the field and even with others waiting for tee-off time, Rahm is currently four shots behind the home-club leader, the American austin smotherman (63), authored eight birdies without a miss, including four in the last four holes of his round.
Rahm started his round on the 10th hole and was par for the course after the first nine holes, with two birdies (14, 17 holes) and two bogeys (11, 16), but his performance in green greatly improved in the second. part of the course and moved up several places in the table thanks to four more birdies on holes 1, 2, 7 and 9.
Classification (1st day)
Home-club players
Mexico Open (par 71)
63 Austin Smotherman (USA)
65 Stephan Jaeger (Germany)
Eric Cole (USA)
Taylor Pendrith (Can)
66 Richy Werenski (USA)
67 Jon Rahm (ESP)
Gary Woodland (USA)
Matt Wallace (Eng)
Beau Hossler (USA)
68 Michael Kim (USA)
Emiliano Grillo (Arg)
…
70 Alex Noren (Sue)
Source: La Verdad
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