The Masters 2023: Most spectacular from Spherical 1 at Augusta Nationwide

The 87^th Masters is off to a quick begin. The match has already seen loads of surprises and many highs. It’s additionally simple to level to the leaders as being probably the most spectacular on the day, nevertheless it’s how they acquired to guide after Spherical 1 that was spectacular.

Listed below are probably the most spectacular performances from the opening spherical at Augusta Nationwide.

The chief of the PGA Tour’s FedExCup standings began out the primary gap in a manner that appeared like he would have a tough afternoon, however boy did he rapidly flip issues round. After ending with a double bogey on the very first gap, Rahm adopted that up with a birdie on the following two holes earlier than ending the entrance 9 with one other birdie at 7 and an eagle on 8. He then closed out Spherical 1 with 4 birdies on the again 9 to complete the opening spherical with a 65.

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The Norwegian golfer began out scorching, then rapidly cooled down. Hovland scored an eagle on the second gap of the opening spherical earlier than ending with three birdies in three of the final 4 holes of the entrance 9. As he led early on with a rating of -5 into the ten^th, Hovland slowed down with a number of dangerous photographs out of the tee field that put him in dangerous positions. With simply two birdies within the second half of the spherical, Hovland nonetheless did sufficient early on to finish the day because the co-leader after Rahm caught as much as him.

Don’t look now, however LIV Golf has a golfer on the high of the leaderboard. After being -4 by way of 13 holes due to a bogey on the Par 5 13^th, the 32-year-old LIV Golfer surged with birdies in three of the final 4 holes to shut out his spherical of play and tying Rahm and Hovland for the lead after Spherical 1 at Augusta.

Cameron Younger (-5) – The 35^th place participant within the FedEx Cup standings had a very good lengthy recreation Thursday, however two bogeys set him again and will have simply been tied for the lead.

Xander Schauffele (-4) – He was constant all through the spherical with good inexperienced placement, however like Younger two bogeys on Par 4 Holes 7 and 17 barely stored him within the High 5 of the leaderboard.

Fred {Couples} (-1) – I do know, he completed with a 71 and tied for twenty-four^th place after the primary spherical. However how are you going to not give the 63-year-old a point out as he’s enjoying among the many finest on this planet and people half his age?!