In the USA, the Memorial Tournament is immediately well balanced, one of the most important tournaments of the PGA Tour. In Dublin (Ohio), after the first round and with a score of 67 (-5) strokes, there are six golfers in the lead.
ranking: Americans Cameron Young, Luke List, Davis Riley, Canadian Mackenzie Hughes, South Korean Kyoung-Hoon Lee and Australian Cameron Smith (number 3 in the world ranking).
Memorial Tournament, results
Never, in the history of the tournament, at the end of the opening 18 holes, had there been six leaders.
At the Muirfield Village Golf Club (par 72), Jack Nicklaus’s “home”, the Turin Francesco Molinari is 34 / o with 71 (-1). The only blue in the race, he played an almost flawless performance up to the fifteenth hole, then at the 16th and 17th he paid dearly for two mistakes that made him lose strokes and ground.
Five birdies and four bogeys for the winner of the 2018 Open Championship who shares the 34th position with other big names such as, among others, Collin Morikawa and Viktor Hovland, respectively in fourth and seventh place in the world.
After Lorenzo Gagli’s in Germany, at the Porsche European Open and on the Dp World Tour, another disqualification, this time on the PGA Tour. The Japanese (who won this tournament in 2014) was forced to leave the competition due to a stick not conforming to the regulations, on the face of which lines were apparently marked with paint.
Short ranking in America, where Will Zalatoris is 7 / o with 68 (-4) like three other Americans: Wyndham Clark, Sahith Theegala and Danny McCarthy. Further back Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele and Rickie Fowler, 21 / i with 70 (-2).
The race of Jon Rahm (champion in 2020, last year he was forced to leave the tournament when he had it in his pocket because he was positive at Covid) and Patrick Cantlay (outgoing champion, he made the competition his own in the 2019), 48 / i with 72 (par).
Difficult return, after the wrist operation, for Bryson DeChambeau. Scored in 2018 at The Memorial, he is now 96 / o with 76 (+4).
