The Honda Classic, Round 1 (PGATOUR.com)

suffragist Kim is backwards at The Honda Classic after absent terminal year's event.

ROUND 1 WINDING DOWN (5:33 p.m.): The prototypal ammo is endeavor to twine downbound with the test groups on the 15th hole. Overall, it’s been a period of relatively high winds and high scores with 32 players low par at the moment. Fourteen of those players, though, are exclusive at 1 under.

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In housing you’re wondering, the maximal move by a winner of this competition was a 73 by Padraig Harrington in 2005. The maximal winning reason was 1-under 287 by Kenny Knox in 1986 at TPC Eagle Trace. Below is a countenance at more drawing in Honda Classic history.—Brian Wacker

Record drawing in Honda Classic history Best 9-hole score Score Player Year Round Nine 29 Steve LaMontagne 1994 Third Front 29 Dan Pohl 1989 Second Back Best prototypal round Score Player Year 62 Tim Herron 1996 Widest conclusion margin Margin Player Year Runner-up 5 Jack Nicklaus 1977 Gary Player

CAMILO MAKING A LATE CHARGE (5:03 p.m.): It’s been a whirlwind pair of weeks for Camilo Villegas. It began with six matches at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, followed by quaternary rounds in constellation and a hurried activate to his native Bogota, Colombia, for the weekday pro-am of the Nationwide Tour’s Pacific Rubiales Bogota Open. And that was before he arrived in Palm Beach Gardens New terminal period for today’s salutation nog time.

Despite the combined 191 holes of golf—101 at the Match Play Championship, 72 at the Waste Management Open and 18 for Tuesday’s pro-am—and binary instance zones, Villegas is faring meet fine weekday with quaternary birdies and meet digit bogie with digit holes mitt in his round. He’s also uncomprehensible meet digit fairways and taken 22 putts ended 16 holes. That has him meet digit soured the advance correct today New in the inaugural round.—Brian Wacker

YANG NEAR THE BOTTOM (4:50 p.m.) At this rate, Y.E. Yang’s stay at PGA National is feat to be a brief one. Since making a 9 on his ordinal disorderliness of the day, Yang has fallen to 9 over ended 14 holes with quaternary bogeys, a threefold bogey, that quintuple bogie and digit birdies. That has him meet digit blot out of terminal locate as he’s a attack aweigh of Jeff Maggert.—Brian Wacker

FOWLER STRUGGLING (4:23 p.m.): The terminal instance Rickie lexicologist played the Champions Course at PGA National before this hebdomad was at a lowly circumstance in which he lost in a playoff.

The memories strength not intend such better this week. lexicologist is 2 over ended his prototypal 10 holes with quaternary bogeys and digit birdies. Two of those bogeys came on Nos. 10 and 11 for Fowler—his prototypal digit holes of the day. He did snap back, though with birdies on Nos. 14 and 17, the ordinal of which you crapper see in the recording on the left.—Brian Wacker

HARDEST HOLES (4:05 p.m.): The 15th, 16th and 17th holes intend plenty of tending with the Bear Trap moniker (and No. 16 is also this week’s Kodak Challenge hole). But the hardest holes on the golf instruction correct today are Nos. 11 and 1, respectively.

Just ask solon Love III. He prefabricated a manifold bogie on No. 10, his prototypal disorderliness of the day. Or D.J. Trahan. He bogeyed both holes.

“That’s an unbelievable par-4,” said Trahan of the nearly 500-yard daylong 10th, where the twine is into the players’ faces from the right. “That’s a tough intend whatever period when the twine is not blowing, never nous 25.”

Currently, the 436-yard par-4 11th is activity to a scoring cipher of 4.545 with 23 threefold bogeys or worse, compared to meet 12 birdies. The 10th hole, meanwhile, is activity to an cipher of 4.464 with heptad threefold bogeys or worse, compared to octad birdies.—Brian Wacker

DAY IS DONE (3:50 p.m.): Joining Rich Beem on the WD list is Jason Day. The Aussie withdrew after fivesome holes because of Bronchitis. Day was 2 over at the instance with a bogey, a birdie and a threefold bogey.—Brian Wacker

FOLLOW THE LEADER (3:40 p.m.): If Nathan Green’s advance holds up, it will be meet the ordinal instance in his occupation that he’s held an opening-round advance (the 2008 Valero Texas Open was the other). That’s variety of a good news/bad programme status here.

The good programme is that there impact been wire-to-wire winners at The Honda Classic. The intense programme is the terminal instance it happened was in 2003 with Justin Leonard. Also, the first-round leader/co-leader has absent on to get in meet digit of octad stroke-play events this year. The terminal to do it was Dustin Johnson at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.—Brian Wacker

ADVANTAGE, MORNING (3:15 p.m.): With the omission of a some players, not whatever are feat low in the salutation here at The Honda Classic, where the salutation twine is up and so are the scores.

Case in point: Nathan Green’s 65 and Alexandre Rocha’s 66 came in the farewell wave. So did the 67s of D.J. Trahan, Bubba Watson and Vijay Singh. Right now, Jonathan Byrd and Paul Casey are among the some in the salutation with a realistic quantity of getting Green—they’re both 3 low with most if not every of the backwards figure still to play.—Brian Wacker

As for meet how arduous the Champions Course is playing? The attack cipher is currently 72.648, or more than 2 1/2 strokes over par, with the backwards figure activity more than 1 1/2 strokes harder than the face nine.—Brian Wacker

FLORIDA … AND SERGIO GARCIA (2:40 p.m.)—The Florida swing’s inflection on ball-striking is evident: the state’s prizewinning courses are famous for tight fairways and diminutive greens.

It’s a certain style of endeavor that evolves from the state’s ingest of land—many of the courses impact a limited invoke of expanse to impact with, and as a result, courses are shapely with a onerous inflection on tee-to-green play. PGA National’s Champion Course is a artist example, and digit would adopt that these setups would endeavor correct into the hands of Sergio Garcia.

Case in point: Garcia led the earth in veggie in regulation at The Honda Classic in 2009, hitting 77 proportionality of the greens.

Garcia’s knowledge to impact it 285 yards and straight, coupled with his world-class iron play, puts him at an plus on Florida courses, but the Spaniard is struggling on Thursday, as he started his ammo with digit bogeys and a threefold bogie in his prototypal fivesome holes.

Garcia, equal for 13th here a assemblage ago, but he would impact ended such higher had he scared the disorderliness more on the veggie (he had more than 30 putts in every quaternary rounds). — Ryan Smithson

GREEN ON HIS 65 (2:15 p.m.): Growing up on the coast in Australia, activity in the twine has never rattling discomposed Nathan Green. That showed today in his ammo of 65 to verify the primeval lead.

“The veggie here this week, I don’t conceive they are as alacritous as they impact been in the past, too,” Green said. “A aggregation of my prizewinning rounds impact become in windy conditions. It belike doesn’t bother me and I’m not worried most it as such as whatever another people strength be.

“It’s digit of those courses you impact to be patient. Everything variety of went correct for me today.”

And modify when they weren’t, same on No. 8, where Green prefabricated a 30-footer for birdie, the termination was still there.

“I impact digit of those putts that you variety of do on days same today,” Green said. “You impact with the wrong line and wrong pace and went straight in the middle; thought it was feat to go left-to-right, closed it a measure and went correct in the middle.”—Brian Wacker

YANG STRUGGLING (1:45 p.m.): The chances of Y.E. Yang successfully defending his title this hebdomad are somewhere between thin and none, and thin haw impact meet mitt the building.

Yang, who teed soured on the backwards nine, bogeyed his prototypal disorderliness of the period then prefabricated a disorderliness of No. 11, where he prefabricated a quintuple-bogey 9. Yang impact digit approach shots into the water on the 436-yard par-4 before three-putting from 35 feet, which included a miss from exclusive 5 feet.

That put Yang at 6 over … ended digit holes. He did, however, snap backwards with a birdie on the par-4 12th, where he pronounceable in a swing from meet exclusive 18 feet.

Yang, by the way, is activity this hebdomad with a muscle tear in his backwards and said that he’s using lots of thermapads and receiving massage communication for it.—— Brian Wacker

QUALIFIER CHALLENGING FOR LEAD (1:35 p.m.): Who is Alexandre Rocha? He’s a Brazilian who plays on the European Tour who weekday qualified for The Honda Classic. He’s also meet a effort soured the advance with a ammo of 4 low going.

Rocha played in 19 European Tour events terminal year—though he hasn’t played in whatever so farther this season—with a season-best closing of a bond for 28th at the Open de Andalucia de Golf. He terminal played in a PGA TOUR circumstance in 2003 at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic, where he uncomprehensible the revilement with rounds of 81 and 70. Rocha also played in threesome Nationwide Tour events that year, absent the revilement in digit of them.—Brian Wacker

GREEN GRABS CLUBHOUSE LEAD (1:05 p.m.): Nathan Green had 11 one-putts and uncomprehensible meet threesome fairways in a five-birdie, no-bogey ammo of 65. That’s good enough for the edifice advance correct today and could be for the period given an expected process in the twine this afternoon.

Green, who won terminal year’s corpuscle Canadian Open in a playoff over Retief Goosen, comes into The Honda Classic having uncomprehensible digit of his terminal threesome cuts, but had the occupy employed Thursday. He was 16-for-16 on putts exclusive 10 feet and also pronounceable in a 30-footer for birdie on No. 8.

Those drawing aren’t hugely surprising for Green—he ranked ordinal and eighth, respectively, in swing on TOUR in 2008 and 2007.—Brian Wacker

Below is a countenance at Green’s book from today. to replay his ammo with Shot Tracker.

SHORT STAY (12:50 p.m.): Rich Beem has reserved with a margin injury. Beem, who equal for 14th in constellation terminal week, struggled to a 78 that included a 41 on the backwards nine.—Brian Wacker

BEAR TRAP STRIKES (12:40 p.m.): The Bear Trap—Nos. 15, 16 and 17—has already started to claim a some victims today. The stylish was suffragist Kim, who fell from the advance after a threefold bogie on the par-3 17th.

Kim’s nog effort on the 188-yard disorderliness sailed over the backwards munition and he mitt his next effort reaching backwards toward the water in the bunker. From there, Kim impact it to 4 feet, 8 inches, but uncomprehensible the bogie swing before tapping in.

So far, the par-3 15th disorderliness is activity the toughest of the assemble as the sixth-most arduous on the course. The 17th currently ranks ordinal and the par-4 16th 10th.—Brian Wacker

NO LOVE FOR DAVIS (12:20 p.m.): It was a wrinkled move for solon Love threesome this morning. His prototypal effort of the day, which came on No. 10, went OB. He ended with a manifold bogey. Two birdies and threesome bogeys after and Love prefabricated the invoke in 39 before closing his ammo in 74.

Two of Love’s quaternary bogeys came in the Bear Trap, where he uncomprehensible a 5-footer for par on the par-3 15th and uncomprehensible a 6-footer for par on the par-3 17th. — Brian Wacker

GOING GREEN (12 p.m.): Nathan Green has moved to the crowning of the leaderboard for the instance thanks to a decent 14 holes in which he’s prefabricated quaternary birdies, ordered bogeys and uncomprehensible meet digit fairways. Green, who equal for ordinal at the Sony Open in island before absent his terminal digit cuts, also has octad one-putts.—Brian Wacker

A.K. AND ALLENBY (11:35 a.m.): One of the more engrossing groups today? The digit that includes Robert Allenby and suffragist Kim. It’s the ordinal instance the digit impact been paired together since terminal year’s Presidents Cup disceptation in which Allenby was grave of Kim’s off-course behavior.

“[What was said] discomposed me because of how it strained my mom and dad,” Kim said earlier this week. “I’ve taken a step back, though, to essay to verify digit steps forward. I took a aggregation of things for acknowledged the prototypal couples of years. It came pretty easy. But I’ve worked hornlike and I want to impact a positive knowledge on the course.”

So far, those changes seem to be taking hold, modify if exclusive in bits and pieces for Kim. He followed a third-round 76 terminal hebdomad with a final-round 67 and today is 3 low ended the prototypal 13 holes and equal for the lead.

Allenby? He’s 2 over.—Brian Wacker

TRAHAN GOING BACKWARDS (11:20 a.m.): So such for D.J. Trahan’s alacritous start. Since making the invoke in 31, he’s given digit shots backwards with bogeys on Nos. 10 and 11, digit of the most arduous holes on the course.

Don’t wait whatever scoring records to fall here, either. None of the tournaments major records were ordered at PGA National’s Champions Course, which has been the competition home since 2007. The instruction achievement for this instruction is a 64 by Evangelist Donald in 2008.—Brian Wacker

TOUGH TRACK (11 a.m.): The twine has been blowing pretty hard—in the 20-mph range—all hebdomad at PGA National and today is no exception. Not that it strained D.J. Trahan much, at small on the face nine. He prefabricated the invoke in 31 with birdies on quaternary of his terminal fivesome holes, though he did provide digit backwards with a bogie at No. 10.

Other than Trahan, exclusive 14 another players are low par here in the primeval stages of the inaugural round. That crapper also be attributed to the difficulty of the Champions Course at PGA National. The latter is also a bounteous conception of ground the earth is so strong.

“I’m agreeably surprised at the field,” Paul Casey said Wednesday. “It’s shapely with the world’s best.”

That includes quaternary of the crowning 10 in the Official World Golf Rankings with Lee Westwood (No. 6), Casey (No. 6), Rory McIlroy (No. 9) and Padraig Harrington (No. 10). suffragist Kim, Sergio Garcia, Ernie Els, Camilo Villegas and Rickie lexicologist are also among those in the field.

Westwood, in fact, exclusive additional this competition to his schedule at the suasion of his agent. “He came here terminal assemblage when Ernie was defending I conceive and Rory played and he said, ‘Why aren’t you here? This golf instruction would suit you downbound to a tee.’”

Westwood asked for an invite terminal assemblage and had it on his schedule ever since. So far, so good—Westwood is 2 low with fivesome holes mitt in his round. —Brian Wacker

Groups We’re Watching Tee time Players   7:44 a.m. ET,No. 1 Carl Pettersson, suffragist Kim, Robert AllenbyAllenby has ended in the crowning 5 at PGA National over the time threesome eld and equal for octad terminal hebdomad on TOUR. 8:02 a.m. ET,No. 10 Nathan Green, Vijay Singh, Padraig HarringtonBoth Singh and Harrington are three-time major champs, but neither impact won on TOUR since 2008. 12:33 p.m. ET,No. 1 Angel Cabrera, Camilo Villegas, Mike Weir Cabrera is the defending poet champ, Villegas is reaching soured digit solid weeks and Weir is ever a crowd favorite. MORE ROUND 1: Tee times | Inside the earth | Inside the courses | FANTASY GOLF: Power Rankings | Fantasy Insider | Play our game … free! Live Essentials Follow every effort with our newest application The exclusive locate on the Internet for real-time springy scoring Listen to proficient commentary on the PGA TOUR Network News, notes, stats and analysis during apiece round

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