But though only one Aussie golfer made the long haul to the latest European tour event from Royal Melbourne following last week’s Australian Open, Austin Bautista flew the flag well enough on Thursday’s opening day to shoot a three-under 69.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Chacarra hit every green in regulation as he carded eight birdies, an eagle and \u200cdropped a single \u200bshot with a three-putt on the \u200d15th to set a record for the course.<\/p>\n
He was later joined by Burke, who carded 10 birdies and an eagle but \u200balso had three dropped \u200cshots in a whirlwind round as the pair lead \u200bby one shot from South Africans Thriston \u200dLawrence and Brandon Stone.<\/p>\n
“The course is very wet after all the rain \u200bthey’ve \u200bhad, but \u200ba softer course can \u200bmake golf a bit easier as you can attack the pins, and I did that today,” said Chacarra, who won the Indian Open on the European Tour in \u200dMarch.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old New South Welshman Bautista, who finished tied for 51st at the Australian Open, finished his round with the flourish of an eagle to lie in joint-40th amid the glut of low-scoring.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But though only one Aussie golfer made the long haul to the latest European tour event from Royal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-342146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}