Collin Morikawa holds second spot and world No 2 Scottie Scheffler is inside 4 of the lead, with Rory McIlroy 12 strokes off the tempo struggling to a gap 76; Watch the second spherical stay on Friday from 11.30am on Sky Sports Golf, with additional feeds by way of the pink button
By Ali Stafford at TPC Sawgrass
Last Updated: 10/03/23 12:03am
Highlights from day one in every of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Highlights from day one in every of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Chad Ramey upstaged the PGA Tour’s largest names to say a shock lead after the opening spherical of The Players, the place Rory McIlroy endured a nightmare begin in his bid to return to world No 1.
Ramey – who had missed the lower in his seven of his earlier 10 PGA Tour begins – ripped up the shape information by firing a superb bogey-free 64 at TPC Sawgrass, with eight birdies serving to the American to a one-shot benefit over two-time main winner Collin Morikawa.
A 3-birdie end from late starter Ben Griffin lifted him to a share of third on 5 underneath alongside Justin Suh and Canada’s Taylor Pendrith, with Scottie Scheffler 4 off the tempo after out-performing Jon Rahm and McIlroy of their morning marquee group.
Rory McIlroy struggled to a four-over-par 76 in the course of the first spherical of The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.
Scheffler birdied three of his final 4 holes to card an opening-round 68 and present world No 1 Rahm lies seven again after a one-under 71, whereas McIlroy is in peril of lacking the lower after double-bogeying his opening gap and including 4 bogeys in a irritating four-over 76.
How Ramey moved forward at TPC Sawgrass
Ramey adopted three birdies in his opening 5 holes by draining a 30-footer at the par-four seventh, serving to him attain the flip in 32, then continued his progress by beginning his again 9 with successive birdies.
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The world No 225 ended a run of pars by benefiting from the par-five sixteenth and jumped into the solo lead when he fired his tee shot at the long-lasting par-three subsequent to inside tap-in vary, earlier than signing off his blemish-free card by two-putting from distance at the final.
“Not easy at all,” Ramey mentioned. “I might have made it look that way but it wasn’t easy at all. It was fun, first time to shoot a score on such an iconic course like this – you can’t ask for any more.”
Morikawa held the outright benefit earlier within the day after mixing 5 birdies with a shocking eagle at the par-five second, the place he fired his method to inside 4 toes of the flag, whereas Suh made a late cost for the lead when he posted 5 birdies in a five-hole stretch from the seventh to hitch the group tied-third.
Highlights from Collin Morikawa’s gorgeous 65 (-7) within the opening spherical of The Players Championship.
The restricted daylight in Florida meant that the ultimate few teams have been unable to complete earlier than play was suspended on account of darkness at 6.28pm native time (11.28pm BST), with Suh amongst those that might want to return on Friday to complete.
Mixed fortunes for golf’s stars
Scheffler is joined within the group on 4 underneath by Min Woo Lee, who bogeyed his remaining two holes after struggling cramp late in his spherical, with Jordan Spieth beginning his again 9 with three consecutive birdies on his option to a three-under 69.
Hayden Buckley added his identify to the checklist of gamers to make an ace on the long-lasting seventeenth gap at TPC Sawgrass when he holed his tee shot on Thursday at The Players Championship.
Xander Schauffele battled again from being 4 over with eight holes to play to card a level-par 72, with English trio Danny Willett, Tommy Fleetwood and Tyrrell Hatton additionally in that group eight off the tempo, whereas Hayden Buckley needed to accept an opening-round 73 regardless of a superb hole-in-one at the par-three seventeenth.
McIlroy blended two birdies with 4 bogeys and a double-bogey throughout a irritating opening day, leaving him 12 off the lead, with solely 9 gamers posting the next whole than the four-time main champion in the course of the morning wave.
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