Truckie, Calif. – Ben Martin scored 16 factors on Thursday, main David Lipski and Nick Watney two factors, and is the one PGA Tour occasion to make use of the revised Stableford scoring system within the first spherical of the Barracuda Championship.
Gamers obtain 8 factors for double eagles, 5 factors for eagles and a couple of factors for birdies. Factors are deducted for bogeys, and three are deducted for double bogeys.
Nos. Nos from Bogeys 6-7. He rebounded from the Bogeys with a birdie 8-9 and closed the morning spherical at Tahoe Mountain Membership, a treeline format at 6,000 ft altitude.
“To be trustworthy, I am warming up within the vary this morning and it is chilly. I am getting older. It is onerous to remain bodily energetic,” stated Martin, 37, who got here to Las Vegas’s solely PGA tour in 2014. ”
The event, which takes place on the opposite aspect of the British Open, is collectively permitted by the DP World Tour in Europe. The winner will enter the PGA Championship, however not the Masters.
Lipski scored 15 factors on the primary 9 holes, then dropped three factors in par 4 seconds after his strategy bouncing off the greenside sprinkler.
“It bounced over the greenery,” Lipsky stated. “It was robust to even make a bogey from there, so it is a bit unlucky, however general it was a superb day.”
He birded the third of the par 5 and interpreted the ultimate six. On the opening 9, he took fifteenth par 5 and gained 5 birdies at 7 underneath 29.
Watney, 44, gained the ultimate of 5 PGA Tour titles in 2012.
The Cameron champions scored 13 factors with Rico Hoy, Joel Damen, Danny Walker, Dale Whitnell and Todd Clements. The 2018 winner, Andrew Putnam, was 12 years previous with Jackson Suber, Ute Katsuragawa and Vince Wheelie.
Max Homa misplaced factors and struggled within the afternoon with Mississippi State defending champion Nick Dunlap and NCAA champion Michael La Sasso. Dunlap misplaced six factors and Sasso performed on sponsor exemption – 7.
German twins Yannik and Jeremy Paul additionally dropped off a top-slow begin. Yannik had zero factors and Jeremy misplaced two factors. They performed at a college in Colorado.
