Jolla, California – The sun was aware Genesis Invitational Friday and the stars shone at the Torrey Pines Golf Course.
The world n ° 1 Scottie Scheffler and N ° 3 Rory McILroy both fired 5 under 67 to start in line. These big names in the PGA Tour Signature Davis Thompson event, 25, has led Scheffler.
Thompson made eight birdies during the day, including three consecutive from n ° 11, where he cut and followed this by launching at 12 years. His putter was riding so he rolled in a birdie at 13 to make a good measure. But his back to nine was a bit of the roller coaster while he followed with bogeys following our 14 and 15 years.
“You are going to face adversity here, it’s a hard golf course, so you just have to try to bounce back as best you can,” said Thompson, who won for the first time last season in John Deere Classic.
Thompson made 12 birdies through 36 holes, three more than any other player on the field, and is also at the top of the ground in won lines: Tee to Green this week.
Scheffler was not his clearest, but he posted the only round without Bogey of the day. He had a case of shooting from the early tee, which turned into a double -meaning failure and led him to strike only five of the 14 fairways during the day. It did not cost him because he was a perfect five against five rushing and led the land by spending 10 out of 11 this week. The only time he found a Greenside bunker, he fled to Eagle in the sixth by 5.
“It was really good to have a day like today when I felt like I did not play unwavering golf, but the dashboard was clean,” he said.
When he was asked for his erratic conduct, he fell in love: “I’m probably going to have to rebuild my swing on the range this afternoon.”
The commentator Frank Nobilo, speaking on Golf Channel, described Scheffler’s starting blows “the only part of his game not to his standard” after its layoff due to hand surgery. And Scheffler struck the range to find a solution that could help him compose a few fairways during the weekend. It is easy to forget that Scheffler is not only blessed to be a ball machine; He also has a strange ability to have it scratched with the best of them if necessary.
“I try to be patient with myself enough of surgery,” he said. “This is part of the kind of construction of what I lost during the offseason and I feel like I am improving every day and hoping to continue to improve when I continue to play.”
The head of the first round Denny McCarthy is the only one in third at 6 sous, a better than McILroy. He made four birdies on the first nine, especially by turning him to Gimme Range at the fifth. His corner game was clear, the striking tight on n ° 9 and 15 and he filled a short iron from the rough inside three feet to 17 to install another easy birdie.
“This is something I work on,” he said about stealing his lower corners and hitting more shots to remove the rotation.
Ludvig Aberg (T-5), who put on a bunker, Ludvig Aberg (T-5), who put on a bunker at 18 for Eagle and fired 66 years. In-n-out but as it is Valentine’s Day, I will let my girlfriend choose. “”
This stacked classification is only the Valentine that the tour needed. With a forecast of Sunshine from here, Torrey Pines, which Berg called a “big boy course”, takes place to be a real test of golf excellence. McILroy said: “I don’t see this course becoming much easier over the week.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: The classification is stacked at the Genesis Invitation 2025
