Abraham Ancer and Dean Burmester They shot 63 shots (7 under par) this Friday and They are leading after the first round of LIV Golf in Hong Kong. Both players chained five consecutive birdies in a relatively short course of Hong Kong Golf Cluband lead by a stroke in a group that belongs Martin Kaymer and Louis Oosthuizen.
The Chilean Joaquin Niemannwho won Jeddah LIV in Saudi Arabia last week to secure his second victory in three Super League appearances (he also won Mayakoba, the inaugural event), shooting 67, as did. Jon Rahm.
The Basque, who started his round on hole 3 with two consecutive birdies, added four more, but his otherwise immaculate card was tarnished by a triple bogey at the 18th.
Mistake then very unlucky
Rahm was joint leader in the tournament but took a wrong turn when he birdied the 18th hole, the second to last of the day. One mistake and a bunch of bad luck. The tee ball went into the trees to the left. Between the area of the trees where the ball rests and the fairway there will be about 20 meters and half there will be a paved path. Jon hit the ball with not enough flight and it unfortunately hit the side of the road, bounced hard and stuck to the fence. Unplayable. He had to fall and repeat the blow to get out. He played his fifth shot on the green normally and was unable to make the four meter putt he needed to make the ‘6’. Triple bogey-7 in the bag.
Rahm, four strokes off the lead, was not far from the leaders to fight for the victory he had come so close to in the first three rounds of the circuit in Playa del Carmen, Las Vegas and Jeddah.
In its part, Sergio Garcia He had a careful day, with a double bogey and three bogeys, for four birdies to finish with +1, just ahead of the Catalan David Puigwhich ended at +2.
The Americans Bruce Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau They completed the first day with 65 hits, one less than the big group in which the Colombian is located Sebas Muñoz, while with 67 (-3) there is another large group of players, besides Niemann and Rahm, the English Ian Poulterthe North American Patrick Reed and the Australian Cameron Smith.
The Hong Kong tournament is the second of three LIV Golf events on the Asian tour, with the third taking place in early May in Singapore. In the week before Singapore, the Super League is in the Pacific region with a second consecutive tournament in Adelaide, Australia, from April 26 to 28. The next LIV is in Miami from April 5 to 7, a week before the Augusta Masters where Rahm will defend his Green Jacket.
Source: La Verdad
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