At the PGA Tour Waste Management Phoenix Open in the US, Kyung-Hoon Lee recorded the best performance among Korean players with a tie for 6th on the first day.
In the first round of the tournament held at TPC Scottsdale (par 71) in Scottsdale, Arizona, Lee Gyeong-Hoon tied 6 birdies and 1 bogie to hit a 5 under par 66.
Lee Kyung-hoon, a tie for 6th place in the lead and 3rd hitting, is aiming for the highest ranking this season, surpassing the 19th place at the Sony Open last month.
Starting from the 10th hole (par 4), Lee Gyeong-hoon took a birdie from the first hole and added a birdie in the 13th and 15th holes, which are par 5.
In the par 4 hole 17, I burned the second shot on the green slope and attached it to the hole 2m, and added a birdie to catch only 4 birdies in the first half.
He continued his birdie march to the 3rd hole (par 5) and made his first look at the 6th hole (par 4), but immediately made up for it as a birdie at the next 7th hole (par 3) and raised the rankings.
On the first day, Lee Gyeong-hoon showed a high-sensitivity shot with a 100% green hit rate.
There were only two out of 14 tee shots off the fairway.
Matthew Nismith and Mark Hubbard of the United States, who have not won the PGA Tour, were tied for the lead with 8-under par, Zander Shopley tied for 6th with Lee Gyeong-hoon at 5 under par, and Jordan Spice tied for 4 under par 12th.
Spain’s Yon Lam, the 2nd in the world rankings, and Brooks Kepka of the United States, the world’s 1st place, are aiming to leap to the top with a tie for 21st in the 3 under par.
Ahn Byung-hoon finished the first round with a tie for 37th in the 2nd under par, Kim Si-woo, who won the American Express two weeks ago, a tie for 70th at an even par, and Seongjae Lim at 86th for an over par.
Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas are tied for 50th at the 1st under par.
The Phoenix Open received less than 5,000 spectators a day and held a spectator competition on the PGA Tour about three months after the Houston Open, which entered 2,000 a day in November last year.
In Scottsdale, the course of the competition, drinking and booing are allowed, and a 20,000-seat stand is installed in the par 3’s 16th hall, so it is called the’Golf Liberation Area’, but this year, the number of spectators has decreased significantly compared to the previous year.
(Photo = Getty Image Korea)
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