American Patrick Reed aced the Watering Gap as England’s Sam Horsfield set the first-round tempo at LIV Golf’s Adelaide match.
Horsfield carded a blemish-free six-under 66 to carry outright management at The Grange on Friday.
The 28-year-old is one stroke away from Chile’s Joaquin Niemann and Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz, with main winners Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau lurking an additional shot behind.
Australia’s Ripper GC made a sluggish begin to their staff title defence in Adelaide.
Lucas Herbert (one below) was the very best of the locals, with Cam Smith at even par, Marc Leishman one over and Matt Jones ending three over.
Reed’s hole-in-one on the occasion gap, the par-3 twelfth gap, got here simply quarter-hour into Friday’s opening spherical.
Reed was instantly showered with drinks thrown by rowdy crowds lining the outlet.
His sweetest of pictures is the second ace on the gap in LIV Golf’s 4 years in Adelaide, following Chase Koepka’s hole-in-one in 2023.
The 34-year-old Reed’s feat got here from simply the sixth tee shot on the gap on Friday, however he did not trip the momentum, carding a three-over 75.
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Australia’s quartet largely failed to fireside regardless of raucous help from a crowd of greater than 35,000 spectators.
Herbert shot 5 birdies, however his spherical was stymied by a double-bogey on the par-5 seventh and two bogeys, together with on the Watering Gap.
Leishman birdied the occasion gap for the fourth consecutive time on the match, whereas fan favorite Smith endured a roller-coaster spherical with 4 birdies blended with 4 bogeys.
Chief Horsfield received scorching with three birdies in a four-hole stretch halfway by way of his spherical, whereas Ortiz bagged eight birdies in his 5 below.
Drawcards DeChambeau and Johnson are inside putting distance, as are fellow main winners Brooks Koepka (three below), Jon Rahm (two below) and Bubba Watson (two below).
Spanish drawcard Sergio Garcia is one below and American nice Phil Mickelson is even par.
Torque GC, which options Ortiz and Niemann, prime the staff standings with a mixed eight below, some 11 strokes away from Smith’s Ripper GC.
