Patrick Cantlay leads the Start Invitational after the first round

Golfers of The PGA Tour are starting a new appointment in the busy calendar of 2024 In fact, the position of Commencement Invitation (a prize of 20 million dollars), an event born in 1926 under the name of the Los Angeles Open that closes the so-called “West Coast Swing”. The California event is also one of five PGA events that host golfers participating through invitationals related to tournament winners in past editions, major winners in the past 5 years, past Ryder Cup participants, tournament winners in 2024 before. for Genesis, and other increasingly non-selective criteria.

At the end of the first round he leads the ranking Patrick Cantlay. The American has achieved good results -7 (64 strokes) fouling his first game with a bogey on the 16th hole He is one length over his compatriot List of Luke and on Australians Jason Day and Cam Davis. In fifth place with a score of -5 we find the Americans Jordan Spieth, Tom Hoge and Will Zalatoris, followed by one shot of the South Korean Byeong Hun An and the Canadian Adam Svensson.

On top of par 71 Riviera Country Club course in Pacific Palisades (California, USA) cRounding out the top 10 with a score of -3 are Swede Ludvig Aberg and Americans JT Poston, Beau Hossler, Brendon Todd and Scottie Scheffler. The latter, the leader of the Official World Golf Ranking, had a flurry of rounds that began with eagles and birdies on the first two holes, before making three birdies and three bogeys on the next 16. A short position that saw 42 out of 70. The protagonists finish the first round with a score below par.

Rory McIlroy’s first round should be forgotten. The Northern Irishman is actually 64th on +3 in the company of American Adam Shenk and Irishman Seamus Power and will have to change gears to bounce back from the light sand he skied on Thursday in California. The worst was England’s Matt Fitzpatrick, third from last with +4 ahead of only Americans Nick Hardy and Alex Smalley.