LOS CABOS, Mexico — Kevin Streelman, Tom Whitney and Rico Hoey every shot 5-under 67 in windy situations Thursday to share the first-round lead within the World Broad Expertise Championship.
Winless on the PGA Tour since 2014, the 46-year-old Streelman opened his afternoon spherical at Tiger Woods-designed El Cardonal at Diamante with an eagle and a birdie.
“It is a tiring golf course, particularly when it blows this tough out right here,” Streelman stated. “You’ve got holes you’ll want to handle, with No. 1 being one among them. It is type of a downwind par 5, and 18 is an analogous trend. However then you definitely flip into the wind.”
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Whitney birdied the primary three holes.
“Beginning the day on this golf course you are considering, ‘I must get it to six, 7, 8,'” Whitney stated. “Then the wind begins blowing and also you type of mood these expectations. I am more than happy with 5 beneath.”
Defending champion Erik van Rooyen was a stroke again at 68 with Taylor Montgomery, Max Greyserman, Nate Lashley, Austin Eckroat, Kelly Kraft and Ryan McCormick.
“Utterly totally different check than what we had final yr,” van Rooyen stated. “There was perhaps one membership of wind final yr.”
Nico Echavarria of Colombia, the Zozo Championship winner in Japan in his final begin, opened with a 69.
“It was an excellent spherical, good begin, bogey-free,” Echavarria stated. “Quite a lot of wind for the morning.”
