Surprise on the opening day of The Players
The event took place on Stadium par72 of TPC Sawgrass golf complex in Florida as usual since 1982.
Ramey started the match on the evening of March 9, Hanoi time, going from hole 1, hitting a total of 64 strokes, and the court record was at 63. He scored eight birdies, divided equally in each half of the round, with the most impressive of which was the tee shot three inches from the hole at the par3 17th hole with one of the hardest oasis greens in the world.
Including the opening round, Ramey averaged 291.8 yards, just 0.8 yards more than the average on the PGA Tour this season. But the 30-year-old American golfer hit 10 of the 14 fairways, went to the green according to the standard 14 holes with 24 strokes for the whole round.
"People probably think I score easily, but it's not realistic. But anyway, I'm happy to hit well on the first time on such a famous court," Ramey said when finished.
Ramey turned pro in 2014, but it took seven years of "plowing" on the second-place system to enter the PGA Tour, starting from the 2021-2022 season. Until March last year, he won the first cup in the US first-class golf arena, at the Corales Puntacana Championship in the Dominican Republic.
However, from the beginning of the 2022-2023 season so far, Ramey has attended 14 tournaments, but has been eliminated nine times, remaining the highest in T28. Because of that, Ramey entered The Players at level 225 OWGR and then suddenly stepped up to hold the top of the first round table, at -8. Following Ramey is A-list star Collin Morikawa with a score of -7. Meanwhile, T3 has three hands with -5 including Justin Suh with three holes left. Including Suh, round 1 had 23 hands behind schedule, when in the afternoon bracket, in which the team entered the match at 13:20 local earliest.
Except for Suh near the top of the table, the rest of the unfinished group is standing at T19 (-2) or lower.
When the organizers pulled the whistle to stop, from the top of the table to T6 there were 11 players, including seven faces who are currently outside the top 50 in the world (OWGR), including the first five hands participating in the tournament with the same position as the quartet. major.
The Players 2023 recorded the first and second round nail groups including the top 3 OWGR, from the top including Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy. This is the first time such a structure has occurred in the tournament in the past 20 years.
But the "Big 3" in the current peak golf shows faintly, when Rahm finished the match at T32 (-1), McIlroy was at T118 (+4). Meanwhile, Scheffler dropped to -1 at the end of the 15th hole and then thanks to three birdies in the remaining four holes, he closed at -4 and stood at T6.
