{"id":937720,"date":"2026-10-23T04:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937720\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T04:46:15","slug":"chandler-blanchet-rides-a-pair-of-eagles-to-bermuda-lead-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937720\/","title":{"rendered":"Chandler Blanchet rides a pair of eagles to Bermuda lead \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandler Blanchet made a pair of eagles, including a giant from 50 feet, to post his best score of the year to and hold a one-shot lead after the first round of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchet, whose best finish this season was on another island in the Puerto Rico Open, added six birdies to his round of nine-under par 62.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His only dropped shot came on the par-4 fourth, his 13th hole of the round, when he missed the green well to the left at Port Royal.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792730775_459_.jpeg\" alt=\"davis\"\/>Australia\u2019s Cam Davis was back in a tie for 76th after opening with a one-under 70. (<a href=\"https:\/\/photos.aap.com.au\/search\/20260116153272789806\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AP PHOTO<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>He led by one shot over fellow Americans Ben Kohles and Danny Walker and Canada\u2019s Corey Conners and Ben Silverman on a day when the wind was all over the place, from gusty to calm with a few passing showers.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to improve their positions in the FedExCup Fall standings, two Australians lined up in the tournament, which was won by Lucas Herbert in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Aaron Baddeley shot a two-under par 69 to tie for 60th while Cam Davis was a shot further back.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchet is at No. 114 in the rankings, and points are all that matter this time of the year for so many players. Bermuda is one of five tournaments left in the season, and the top 100 keep full status for 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old is near the end of his first full-time season on the \u200cPGA Tour after joining the Korn Ferry Tour in 2020. He\u2019s looking for his first PGA win after coming \u200cclose with a second-place finish in the Puerto Rico Open back in March.<\/p>\n<p>After a five foot eagle on the par-5 seventh hole, his other came on the 17th, the shortest par five but with water lurking to the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah. No. 17, I guess that was my last eagle. I hit a great drive,\u201d Blanchet said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He only had about 180 yards in, but left it out far too the right, only to hole the putt from just outside 50 feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust dripped in on the last revolution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chandler Blanchet made a pair of eagles, including a giant from 50 feet, to post his best score&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,405163,85,2614],"class_list":["post-937720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-overseas-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937720","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=937720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}