First-Round Notes – Friday, August 31, 2018
Weather: Partly cloudy, with a high of 76. Wind ENE 6-12 mph
First-Round Leaderboard
Justin Rose 65 (-6)
Russell Knox 66 (-5)
Abraham Ancer 66 (-5)
Leading Asian scores
C.T. Pan 69 (-2)
Byeong Hun An 69 (-2)
Si Woo Kim 70 (-1)
Hideki Matsuyama 71 (E)
Whee Kim 72 (+1)
Anirban Lahiri 74 (+3)
Five Things To Know
- The top-100 players in the FedExCup standings qualified for the Dell Technologies Championship. The top-70 players after this week will advance to next week’s BMW Championship
- Justin Thomas (2017), Rory McIlroy (2016), Henrik Stenson (2013) and Vijay Singh (2008) won the Dell Technologies Championship and FedExCup title in the same year
- Justin Rose posts one of just two bogey-free rounds to take 18-hole lead
- Russell Knox uses an eagle-2 at No. 15 from 109 yards to open with a 5-under 66
- Tiger Woods (72) posts a third-consecutive over-par score at TPC Boston
Justin Rose (-6/1st)
Age: 38 (July 30, 1980)
Joined TOUR: 1998
Entering the week
#6 FedExCup
#1 FedExCup Projected Standing
#4 OWGR
13 Starts at Dell Technologies Championship
320 PGA TOUR starts
9 PGA TOUR victories
15 PGA TOUR starts in 2017-18
8 Top-10s in 2017-18
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.