TOP OF THE LEADERBOARDS 

INDIVIDUAL TOP 10 

1 (-10) – Carlos Ortiz, Torque (60)

2 (-8) – Dean Burmester, Southern Guards (62)

T3 (-7) – Younghan Song, Korean (63); Scott Vincent, Wild Card (63); Sergio Garcia, Fireballs (63); Talor Gooch, Smash (63)

T7 (-6) – Bubba Watson, RangeGoats (64); Thomas Detry, 4Aces (64); Tyrrell Hatton, Legion XIII (64)

T10 (-5) – Matthew Wolff, RangeGoats (65); Sebastián Muñoz, Torque (65); Laurie Canter, Majesticks (65); David Puig, Fireballs (65); Jason Kokrak, Smash (65); Bjorn Hellgren, Wild Card (65) 

TEAM TOP 3 

1 (-21) – Torque GC (Ortiz 60, Muñoz 65, Niemann 66, Ancer 68)

2 (-19) – Smash GC (Gooch 63, Kokrak 65, Varner III 66, McDowell 67)

3 (-13) – 4Aces GC (Detry 64, Kim 67, Johnson 68, Pieters 68) 

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ROUND 1 NOTES 

ACE FOR PEREZ: Cleeks Golf Club’s Victor Perez recorded the 13th ace in LIV Golf history – and the first this season – when he holed his tee shot at the 149-yard second. 

“I was trying to hit just a stock gap wedge, and it ended up going a little more right,” said Perez, playing in just his third LIV Golf tournament since joining the league in the offseason. “The ball was in the air, and I was playing with Harold (Varner III), and Harold goes like, go in. Then it was in. It happened so quickly. The ball didn’t roll, either. It kind of was just like, ba-bap, and it was in. It was like, yeah, great bonus.” 

Perez said he was “pretty sure” that Thursday’s hole-in-one was his fourth in competition. 

“I have one on the Challenge Tour, one on DP World, one in the U.S. Open and one here, and I might have one more in a tournament,” Perez said, “but I probably have 10 or 11 (overall). But I don’t know. It’s terrible.” 

Of those 13 aces in league history, four have been at Hong Kong Golf Club, three of those at hole No. 2. On Thursday, the hole played as the fourth easiest par-3 in league history, with an average score of 2.65. 

One of the previous aces at the second hole was by former Cleeks player Kalle Samooja in 2024. With Richard Bland also recording an ace at Mayakoba in 2024, the Cleeks have three holes-in-one, most of any LIV Golf team.