David Skinns He made six birdies in a seven-hole stretch and delivered one card of 62 strokes (-8) this Thursday at Hamilton Golf & Country Club to be the leader in the first round of RBC Canadian Open, of the PGA Tour, and where the Spanish Jorge Campillo scored 69 strokesthree more than Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy.
Playing in the afternoon with the greens still barely receptive after rain earlier in the week, Skins took the lead with a 50-foot birdie putt on his 17th hole (the par-3 8th). The Englishman, 41 years old and without victories on the American circuit, was one stroke ahead of Sam Burns and Sean O’Hair, who started the morning.
Scotsman Robert MacIntyre shot 64 in the afternoon. Ryan Palmer opened with a 65, and two-time Canadian Open champion Rory McIlroy is one shot behind Ryan Fox, Andrew Novak, Erik van Rooyen, Nick Hardy and Trace Crowe. Defending champion Nick Taylor shot a 72. Last year, at Oakdale (Toronto), Taylor made a 26-meter eagle putt in a playoff and became the first Canadian to win the tournament since 1954.
Jorge Campillo (-1) experienced a real roller coaster of emotions in this preliminary round in Ontario. The Extremadura native, the only Spanish golfer present at the tournament, played the afternoon shift and finished with a birdie on the 9th, his last flag of the day, which put him in 34th position in the standings, just three strokes away from the top. 10.
Source: La Verdad
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