Paul Casey earns share of lead

“I can certainly improve in spots of my game”, Spieth said Wednesday from the Hero World Challenge.

The American’s run of victories is certainly a far cry from his results in 2014, as he failed to win a tournament that season despite claiming eight top-ten finishes.

“For the majority of the round, until 15, we had as score-able conditions as possible”, Spieth said after his round.

Lahiri, who was paired with the defending champion and world number one Jordan Spieth, started on the right note with a one-under on the first hole and kept the momentum going at the Albany Golf Club.

“The only blemish I can think of is maybe I left a putt short on line, which is a little criminal. I put myself in a position to make some putts”, Johnson said. “And then you hear the noise of, ‘He’s a good player but he can’t close, ‘ and this and that”.

Those two wins at the end of a year ago served as a springboard to a spectacular season in which Spieth won the Masters and U.S. Open among his five titles, captured the FedEx Cup and its $10 million bonus, swept all the major awards and showed that he can be tough to beat with the lead.

‘I just needed to hit a nice punch-draw with a six-iron, 175 (yards) or so to the hole, it was playing about 185, 190, ‘ the 22-year-old Texan said of his ace. The Albany course is staging its first tournament so we have very little to go on. He was steady in the first round with six birdies and no bogeys. On the golf course, though, he remains all business. “I want to beat him really bad… but you want to beat the best players at their best, that’s what gives you confidence and strength”, he said.

This hole in one came right as the TV coverage took off. What a way to welcome the viewers. “Coming off how much golf weve been playing, Im still going to be about making sure Im resting….

South African rookie Zander Lombard held a two-shot lead over England’s Mark Foster after the opening round of the European Tour co-sanctioned Australian PGA Championship on the Gold Coast on Thursday.

Patrick Reed is also just a shot off the lead after he kept a bogey off his card in a seven-birdie 65, and Bubba Watson joined the share of fourth place thanks to his second straight 67.