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Rory McIlroy is the clubhouse chief however rising Aussie Lucas Herbert is the shock participant proper within the combine on a brutal afternoon at Southern Hills.
Herbert boldly declared he may win final month’s Masters. He missed the reduce.
However the 26-year-old Aussie is three-under – two behind McIlroy – after an up-and-down at 14.
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World No.1 Scottie Scheffler’s afternoon threatened to implode, with the Masters champion yelling at himself after dropping one other shot at 17 — his fifth bogey of the spherical — as his par putt was pushed previous the opening as he dropped again to one-over.
However after taking a drop on 18, the 25-year-old hit an unbelievable strategy shot and one-putted to carry par to breathe an enormous sigh of reduction. He completed with a one-over 71.
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Tiger Woods struggled to a four-over par 74 in Thursday’s opening spherical of the PGA Championship.
Woods, who declared he may win the foremost earlier than play, was foiled by poor iron photographs and soreness in his surgically repaired proper leg.
Australia’s highest ranked participant Cameron Smith completed at two-under, placing him within the combine.
It was a powerful bounce again from Smith who was two-over after 9 holes, earlier than firing 5 birdies after making the flip, and ending with a bogey to signal for a 68.
Jason Day threatened at phases, however stays within the combine at one-over.
Fellow Aussies Cam Davis and Marc Leishman completed at two-over, whereas Matt Jones and Min Woo Lee had been three-over whereas Adam Scott had a nightmare seven-over.
TIGER LIMPS TO 74
The 15-time major champion made his return from severe leg injuries suffered in a February 2021 car crash last month at the Masters, where he battled to walk 72 holes in finishing 47th.
In the second event of his comeback journey, Woods was boosted by a cheering crowd Thursday at Southern Hills, where he began with birdies at the par-4 10th and par-3 14th before his stamina and endurance began to fade.
“My leg is not feeling as good as I would like it to be,” Woods said. “We will start the recovery process and get after it tomorrow.”
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Woods, 46, stated he’s unable to convey full energy into his swing due to the ache in his proper leg, which is held along with rods, pins and screws.
“Well, I just can’t load it,” Woods stated. “Loading hurts, pressing off it hurts, and walking hurts, and twisting hurts.
“It’s just golf. If I don’t do that, then I’m all right.”
Woods, the previous world primary now ranked 818th, made three bogeys in a row beginning on the 18th and closed with back-to-back bogeys, discovering tough and bunkers extra typically as his stamina waned and his iron photographs weakened.
“I drove it well, but my iron shots were not very good. I didn’t get the ball very close,” Woods stated. “I got off to a great start and didn’t keep it going. I really didn’t give myself any looks for birdie.
“I was struggling trying to get the ball on the green and I missed quite a few iron shots both ways. It was a frustrating day.”
Woods struggled within the bunkers, unable to cease his photographs close to the opening.
“All the bunker shots sort of came out hot,” Woods stated.
“The sand is a lot faster than I thought it would be, especially if you get up in the areas where it’s not raked.
“Sometimes the sand, I’m guessing, and I guessed wrong.”
Woods at occasions was utilizing irons off the tee and developing nicely in need of taking part in companions McIlroy, who shot 65, and Jordan Spieth, who fired a 72. They had been utilizing drivers.
“It wouldn’t have been so far back if I would have hit the iron shot solid and put the ball in the fairway,” Woods stated. “I was playing to my spots and those guys obviously have a different game plan.
“You go out there and hit driver a lot, and if you have a hot week, you have a hot week and you’re up there.
“If I would have hit the ball solidly… I would have been fine. But I didn’t do that.”
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MCILROY SEIZES LEAD AT PGA
McIlroy, chasing his first main title since 2014, seized the early clubhouse lead in Thursday’s opening spherical,
Sparked by 4 consecutive birdies, his longest such run in a significant, McIlroy fired a five-under par 65 at Southern Hills.
4-time main winner McIlroy, whose final main victory got here on the 2014 PGA, began on the again 9 with 15-time main winner Woods and Jordan Spieth earlier than an enormous crowd.
“It was a great start to the tournament,” McIlroy stated. “I had a really solid round.”
McIlroy, who has not led or shared a lead after any main spherical because the 2014 PGA, battled poor main begins however the Masters runner-up reeled off 4 consecutive birdies from the twelfth via fifteenth holes.
The 33-year-old from Northern Eire dropped his strategy inches from the cup and birdied the par-4 twelfth, blasted out of a bunker on the par-5 thirteenth to 2 ft and sank the birdie putt and curled in a spectacular 26-foot birdie putt on the par-3 14th.
World quantity seven McIlroy left his strategy 9 ft from the opening on the fifteenth and sank the putt to grab the solo lead, then saved it with par saves at 16 due to a chip to 2 ft and a tense six-foot putt at 18.
McIlroy sank a 14-foot birdie putt on the second, saved par from six ft on the third however missed an eight-foot birdie putt on the fourth.
He bounced again on the par-5 fifth by blasting out of a bunker to 11 ft and sinking his birdie putt, however missed the inexperienced and a nine-foot par putt on the par-3 sixth.
McIlroy hit right into a bunker and missed a six-foot putt to bogey the par-3 eighth to fall again, however closed on the ninth with a birdie putt from simply inside 19 ft.
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2022 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 1 TEE TIMES (AEST; AUSSIES HIGHLIGHTED IN BOLD)
Tee No. 1
10:00pm – John Daly, Shaun Micheel, Y.E. Yang
10:11pm – Takumi Kanaya, Matthew Borchert, Troy Merritt
10:22pm – Dean Burmester, Kyle Mendoza, Chris Kirk
10:33pm – Nic Ishee, Mito Pereira, Sam Horsfield
10:44pm – Kevin Streelman, Shaun Norris, Carlos Ortiz
10:55pm – Matt Kuchar, Cameron Davis, Rikuya Hoshino
11:06pm. – Stewart Cink, Jason Dufner, Padraig Harrington
11:17pm. – Kramer Hickok, Abraham Ancer, Thomas Pieters
11:28pm. – Richard Bland, Matt Jones, Garrick Higgo
11:39pm. – Beau Hossler, Tom Hoge, Si Woo Kim
11:50pm. – Shawn Warren, Pablo Larrazabal, Ryan Fox
12:01am. – Zac Oakley, Yuki Inamori, Sebastián Muñoz
12:12a.m. – Brendan Steele, Casey Pyne, Bio Kim
3:30am – Ryan Brehm, Wyatt Worthington II, Min Woo Lee
3:41am – Nicolai Hojgaard, Sean McCarty, Justin Harding
3:52am – Cameron Tringale, Hudson Swafford, Adam Hadwin
4:03am – Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka, Adam Scott
4:14am – Dustin Johnson, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas
4:25am – Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Harold Varner III
4:36am – Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler
4:47am – Daniel Berger, Louis Oosthuizen, Ian Poulter
4:58am – Kevin Kisner, Tommy Fleetwood, Billy Horschel
5:09am – Sergio Garcia, Charl Schwartzel, Matthew Fitzpatrick
5:20am – Harry Higgs, Joaquin Niemann, Erik van Rooyen
5:31am – Alex Seashore, Bernd Wiesberger, Jhonattan Vegas
5:42am – Jared Jones, Aaron Sensible, Joel Dahmen
Tee no. 10
10:05pm. – Ryan Palmer, Robert MacIntyre, Alex Noren
10:16pm – Adri Arnaus, Colin Inglis, Jinichiro Kozuma
10:27pm – Mackenzie Hughes, Michael Block, Sadom Kaewkanjana
10:38pm – Hideki Matsuyama, Xander Schauffele, Tony Finau
10:49pm – Tyrrell Hatton, Bryson DeChambeau, Max Homa
11:00pm – Viktor Hovland, Will Zalatoris, Cameron Smith
11:11pm – Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods
11:22pm – Patrick Reed, Justin Rose, Bubba Watson
11:33pm – Kevin Na, Lucas Glover, Daniel van Tonder
11:44pm – Cameron Younger, Sam Burns, Davis Riley
11:55pm – Francesco Molinari, Lee Westwood, Gary Woodland
12:06am – Brian Harman, Ryan Vermeer, Oliver Bekker
12:17am – Dylan Newman, Lanto Griffin, Laurie Canter
3:25am – Brandon Bingaman, Talor Gooch, Ryosuke Kinoshita
3:36am – Tim Feenstra, Anirban Lahiri, Kyoung-Hoon Lee
3:47am – Wealthy Beem, Jesse Mueller, Alex Cejka
3:58am – Russell Knox, Seamus Energy, Scott Stallings
4:09am – Jason Kokrak, Corey Conners, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
4:20am – Martin Kaymer, Marc Leishman, Keegan Bradley
4:31am – Zach Johnson, Russell Henley, Cameron Champ
4:42am – Webb Simpson, Branden Grace, Henrik Stenson
4:53am – Sepp Straka, J.J. Spaun, Adam Schenk
5:04am – Matthew Wolff, Joohyung Kim, Keith Mitchell
5:15am – Chad Ramey, Austin Harm, Lucas Herbert
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5:26am – Tyler Collet, Chan Kim, Maverick McNealy
5:37am – Luke Record, Paul Dickinson, Patton Kizzire
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