Rabat, Morocco – Talented Thai star Pavit Tangkamolprasert, who finished runner-up to Australian Travis Smyth at International Series Japan earlier this year, reversed the position on the opening day of the US$2 million International Series Morocco presented by Visit Morocco.<\/p>\n
Pavit shot a bogey-free eight-under par 65 to finish two ahead of Smyth, tied for second position alongside Korean Golf Club\u2019s Younghan Song. Coincidentally, the Korean, who was bogey-free in his 67, was second in International Series Japan last year, and is looking to win for the first time on the Asian Tour.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Scott Vincent, who has been filling in the past several LIV Golf events on HyFlyers GC, made a determined start to his campaign with a three-under 70. <\/p>\n
Among the various LIV Golf stars in the field, RangeGoats Golf Club captain Bubba Watson shot a four-under 69, while Korean Golf Club\u2019s Doyeob Mun was tied 18th with a 70.<\/p>\n
RELATED:\u00a0Leaderboard<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Full coverage of The International Series<\/a><\/p>\n Smyth has won twice this year \u2013 International Series Japan and back home on the PGA Tour of Australasia \u2013 and spent a couple of fruitful weeks on LIV Golf filling in for the injured Paul Casey in Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s Crushers GC.<\/p>\n \u201cFirst of all, I just love this golf course. It\u2019s a place where I feel I can play well, so I arrive with good vibes straight away,\u201d said Smyth, currently leading the Asian Tour Order of Merit.<\/p>\n \u201cI love the challenge of having to shape the ball both ways and hit different trajectories. I enjoy moving the ball around and visualising different shots, and this course really suits that style of play. With the tree-lined fairways, it forces you to be creative, which I enjoy.<\/p>\n \u201cI think winning in Japan earlier this year took a huge weight off my shoulders. Before that, I would come into International Series events knowing how important they were and probably put a bit too much pressure on myself.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d be trying harder, maybe not sleeping as well, and feeling a little more stressed. Since that win, and then going on to play in Singapore and having some great experiences with Crushers GC in LIV Golf, I\u2019ve felt much more relaxed. I feel like I\u2019ve proven to myself that I can get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n (Photo courtesy of Asian Tour)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rabat, Morocco – Talented Thai star Pavit Tangkamolprasert, who finished runner-up to Australian Travis Smyth at International Series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-730958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}