{"id":188035,"date":"2025-10-09T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188035\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:31:07","slug":"baycurrent-classic-max-greyserman-shares-early-lead-in-pga-tour-event-as-he-bids-to-bounce-back-from-last-years-heartbreak-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/188035\/","title":{"rendered":"Baycurrent Classic: Max Greyserman shares early lead in PGA Tour event as he bids to bounce back from last year&#8217;s heartbreak | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Greyserman fired an opening-round 67 to share the early lead at the PGA Tour&#8217;s Baycurrent Classic in Japan after tee times were brought forward to avoid  the potential impacts of a typhoon.<\/p>\n<p>Greyserman was three under at the turn, then sank a 40-foot birdie putt on the 11th to take the outright lead. He bogeyed the 12th but bounced back with a 19-foot birdie on the 15th to finish on four under alongside Bud Cauley and Brian Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>The American, playing in the first group at Yokohama Country Club, said the conditions were difficult but he was proud of his efforts as he attempts to put last year&#8217;s heartbreak behind him.<\/p>\n<p>In the final round of last year&#8217;s event, Greyserman held the lead on the back nine but lost out on the 72nd hole when Nico Echavarria hit his approach close and made birdie to win by one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a solid round. Very, very difficult conditions, and very windy,&#8221; said Greyserman.<\/p>\n<p>        Twitter<\/p>\n<p>                This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies.<br \/>\n                To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies.<br \/>\n                You can use the buttons below to amend your preferences to enable Twitter cookies or to allow those cookies just once.<br \/>\n                You can change your settings at any time via the <a href=\"#privacy-options\">Privacy Options<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies.<br \/>\n                To view this content you can use the button below to allow Twitter cookies for this session only.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-permanently\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-show-on-fallback=\"false\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow\">Enable Cookies<\/a><br \/>\n                <a href=\"#\" class=\"ui-consent-roadblock-body__link ui-consent-roadblock-once\" data-single-click-vendor-name=\"twitter\" data-testid=\"consent-roadblock-allow-once\">Allow Cookies Once<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think overall I played nicely. Just keep doing what I&#8217;m doing. Very happy with how today went. Obviously, it could have always been better, but in those difficult conditions, I&#8217;ll take that any day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love playing in Japan. It&#8217;s a great culture, respectful people, respectful fans. In the US, I don&#8217;t usually get claps when I hit it to 30 feet, and here I do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like they maybe look at golf more like an art form or they&#8217;re trying to learn, especially when I&#8217;m on the range and I see people trying to imitate my swing, whereas in the US it&#8217;s more like an entertainment product.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s fun being over here. Good food too, I&#8217;m not going to complain about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/golfnow-logo.png\" class=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-image\" alt=\"Golf Now logo.\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-text\" class=\"sdc-interactive-golfnow__branding-text\">Get the best prices and book a round at one of 1,700 courses across the UK &amp; Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Greyserman, 30, is aiming for his first PGA Tour win after he lost out to Aldrich Potgieter in a play-off at the Rocket Classic earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his memories of the Baycurrent Current last year, he said: &#8220;We all battled really hard, we were all close.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My biggest memory is being in the lead and Nico birdieing 16 and 18, so I didn&#8217;t like that too much. Felt like I was maybe going to win that one, but Nico got it done that week, so maybe I can get it done this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Denmark&#8217;s Nicolai Hojgaard hit an opening-round 68 to be tied for fourth place, with Sweden&#8217;s Alex Noren one shot further back, while Rasmus Hojgaard carded a one-over 72 and defending champion Echavarria posted a round of 70.<\/p>\n<p>US Ryder Cup duo Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa both opened with level-par 71s, but England&#8217;s Matt Wallace struggled to a three-over 74.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Baycurrent Current in Yokohama this week with coverage from Friday at 4am, live on Sky Sports Golf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/membership\/watch-sky-sports?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the DP World Tour, PGA Tour, LPGA Tour and more contract-free with NOW.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Greyserman fired an opening-round 67 to share the early lead at the PGA Tour&#8217;s Baycurrent Classic in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-188035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}