\u201cYou don\u2019t see that very often,\u201d the commentator said.<\/p>\nScott, who triumphed at the same venue in 2016, eventually scored a 4-over 76 in the first round, finishing the day tied 66th.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Cameron Young rode a hot putter to an eight-under par 64 to take a one-shot first-round lead in the Cadillac Championship. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I made a billion feet of putts,\u201d said Young, who had eight birdies without a bogey and was rolling them in from on and off the green. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time my ball got near the hole it seemed to want to go in today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Young was one stroke ahead of three-time major champion Jordan Spieth and fellow American Alex Smalley.<\/p>\n
Young, who won the Players championship in March and contended at the Masters before finishing tied for third behind Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, got his round going with a birdie at the second, where he landed his approach inches from the pin. <\/p>\n
He rolled in a 41-foot birdie at the fourth and after another short birdie at the fifth made a 28-foot birdie putt from off the green at seven. <\/p>\n
Birdies at 10 and 11 were followed by another 25-foot birdie putt from off the green at 15 and after he took a one-shot lead with a birdie at 16 he made a testing six-foot par putt at 17 to maintain the advantage. <\/p>\n
\u201cI saw a few go in early and it was just one of those days,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just had a really nice feel for the greens today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Young, who won the first of his two PGA Tour titles to date at the Wyndham Championship in August, has three top-five finishes this year and has climbed to number four in the world. <\/p>\n
Spieth holed out for eagle at the eighth to highlight his round. He was eight-under through 15 but made his second bogey of the day at 16. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a very nice start,\u201d said Speith, who was seven-under through 11 and said he took advantage early when the breeze was minimal and the greens were soft. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t foresee seven-unders every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knocked a couple putts in from the fringe which is a bonus and the rest of the round I just played really the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron Young of the United States. Photo by Carmen Mandato\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Smalley, chasing his first PGA Tour title, had eight birdies and one bogey, seizing his share of second with birdies at 16 and 17. <\/p>\n
Canadian Nick Taylor was alone in fourth after a six-under 66, but world number one Scottie Scheffler got off to a disappointing start with three birdies and two bogeys in a one-under 71 that left him seven off the pace. <\/p>\n
The US$20 million (AU$28 million) signature event marks the PGA Tour\u2019s return to the Blue Monster course at Trump National Doral for the first time since 2016. <\/p>\n
The venue had featured on the PGA Tour calendar for more than half a century, hosting a tournament annually from 1962 to 2016 when it staged the World Golf Championships Cadillac Championship. <\/p>\n
The tournament was moved after sponsor Cadillac decided not to renew its sponsorship and a replacement could not be found.<\/p>\n
The PGA Tour, which had been sharply critical of Trump\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign rhetoric concerning immigrants, relocated the event to Mexico – prompting a furious reaction from Trump at the time. <\/p>\n
Since then Doral had hosted a stop in the breakaway LIV Golf circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Scott\u2019s return to Trump National Doral Miami hasn\u2019t gone to plan, with the Australian copping a penalty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-641927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641927","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=641927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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