PGA Tour Northern Trust leaderboard http://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/northern-trust-open/leaderboard.html
A the top of the first round leaderboard is the man voted the sexiest on tour by Golf Digest in 2006, Camilo Villegas with a -8 63. He nearly equalled the course record of 61 that Ted Tryba set in 1999.
At the bottom of the leaderboard is Jordan Spieth who shot an +8 79, his worst start ever as a pro, and his highest score since an 80 in the third round of the 2014 Tour Championship.
This isn't a typo !
Golf has a pecking order called the official world ranking, there are 156 or so entrants to each event and they all have their story. They all book a room, they all have a car parking pass, they all have their big or little support group, and they all tee it up all square every Thursday, then add them up on either Friday or Sunday evenings before moving on to their next stop...
This goes on all over the world every week, PGA Tour, European Tour, Asian Tour, Japanese Tour, Web.com Tour etc etc and all the results go into the big world ranking computer to keep track of it all.
Camilo Villegas got his tour card back in 2006, made headlines with his smouldering good looks, his spiderman pose when reading the greens and his 2 wins in 2008 at the BMW and the Tour Championship after which he was ranked as high as #7.
Since then he has had little success, hasn't made a cut yet this year, made a visit to Q school in 2012, but crucially won the Wyndham Championship in 2014 which has given him his current 2 year exempt status...thus his hotel room and parking spot here at Riviera, near Hollywood this week.
The weather is a factor every week, and in practice Riviera was firm and fast in the Californian sunshine, but on Wednesday night a front moved in with a steady rain that greeted the players with a soft, yielding track for play on Thursday. That changed everything, with 4 irons sticking like wedges.
Bubba Watson twice a champion here, opened with a 66 along with in form Chez Reavie and Luke List.
Rory McIlroy, making his debut at Riviera, opened with two birdies on his way to -4 67.
Canadian scores : Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin T39 -1 70. David Hearn +3 74, Graham DeLaet +4 75
Bryan Angus
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