Séamus Power and Shane Lowry are also in action in Florida.
RORY MCILROY OPENED with a stunning 65 to climb to the top of the leaderboard alongside Xander Schauffele and reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark in the opening round of the Players Championship in TPC Sawgrass.
McIlroy went on to make double-bogey before finishing the day with a par on the eighth and a birdie on the ninth.Rory makes double bogey to move from solo leader to T2. pic.twitter.com/dkV6a5Q22W “If anything I was being conservative with it. I think at the end of the day we’re all trying to protect ourselves, protect the field, as well. Advertisement “I was adamant, but I guess I started to doubt myself a little bit. I was like, ‘OK, did I actually see what I thought I saw?’. It is a bit of a blind spot. I think the best view was from the tee, which was the view that we had.”
Schauffele fired a bogey-free, seven-under-par 65 to stand level with McIlroy and Clark, who birdied three of the last four holes at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. “The bogeys, or the scares of a bogey, come when you miss the fairways,” Schauffele said. “The rough is pretty thick. Shockingly thick in some cases. You’ve just got to keep it on the short grass.”
New Zealand’s Ryan Fox had the first back-to-back eagles in Players history — an eagle at 16 and an ace at 17 on the way to a 69.
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