Truckee, California – Ben Martin scored 16 points on Thursday to take a two -point lead on David Lipsky and Nick Watney after the first round of the Barracuda championship, the only PGA Tour event that uses the modified Stableford notation system.
The players receive eight points for a double eagle, five for an eagle and two for a birdie. One point is deducted for the Bogey and three for a double bogey.
Martin rebounded Bogeys at No. 6-7 with birdies on our 8-9 to close his morning round at the Tahoe Mountain Club, the arrangement of the trees line which is at an altitude of 6,000 feet.
To be honest, warm up on the range this morning, it’s cold. I get older. It is difficult to keep my body moving well, “said Martin, 37, whose only PGA Tour came to Las Vegas in 2014.” I had very few expectations, but which came out, hit the ball in front of me, in a way with confidence. “”
Played in front of the British Open, the tournament is co-sanctioned by DP World Tour in Europe. The winner enters the PGA championship but not the masters.
Lipsky scored 15 points on his first nine holes, then left three on the par-4 second after his approach was rebounded on a spray to Greenside in difficulty.
“Passed the way on green,” said Lipsky. “It was difficult to even make Bogey from there. So, a little unhappy there, but overall a good day.”
He birda the par-5 thirds and next the last six. The first nine, he won the Par-5 15th and had five birdies in 7-mine 29.
Watney, 44, won the last of his five PGA Tour titles in 2012.
Cameron Champ was three points at 13 with Rico Hoey, Joel Dahmen, Danny Walker, Dale Whitnell and Todd Clements. Andrew Putnam, the 2018 winner, won 12 years with Jackson Suber, Yuto Katsuragawa and Vince Whaley.
Max Homa lost a point, fighting alongside the reigning champion Nick Dunlap and the NCAA champion, Michael the Sasso of Mississippi, in the afternoon. Dunlap has lost six points and Sasso – playing on a sponsor exemption – seven.
The German twins Yannik and Jeremy Paul also won the slow departures. Yannik has no point and Jeremy lost two. They played at the University in Colorado.
