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30 year old American Jordan Gumberg playing the tougher Blackstone Course made it look easy running off 9 birdies including 5 in a row on the front nine to take the opening round lead at 63 -8.
He has owgr 568 and sits at #122 in the Race to Dubai.
Meanwhile Canada's Aaron Cockerill after 3 weeks at home with new daughter Tegan, Adison and wife Chelsea caught fire on his back nine after going out in a 3 birdie 1 bogey -2 34, and back with a bogey free 4 birdie 32 T3 -6 66.
He has owgr 450 and begins the week looking to improve on his Race to Dubai ranking #119.
The field will all play the longer Blackstone Course and the tricky Vintage Course before the 36 hole cut is made.
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Jordan Gumberg finished his first round with five straight birdies to lead the 2026 Hainan Classic presented by MAEXTRO.
The American was in the chasing pack at -3 after he dropped a shot at the fourth, his 13th hole - but took full advantage of the remaining five to reach -8, one shot ahead of Spaniard Jorge Campillo at Mission Hills.
He said: "I just got the putter rolling. It’s been a little while since I’ve had the putter actually go my way. I made a little switch in that break area, going back to a short putter, and I just have a lot of confidence in it right now. It’s feeling good.
"It’s always great to be in a good spot after Thursday. You’ve just got to keep your head down and keep going. It’s a long golf tournament, there are still three rounds left and we play a different golf course tomorrow, so it will be interesting.
Campillo made back-to-back birdies at the third and fourth holes and another at the ninth to turn in 35, -3 for the long front nine on the Vintage Course.
A run of four straight birdies from the 11th saw him surge to the head of the field and though he bogeyed the 15th, he bounced straight back with an eighth birdie of the day at the next.
He said: “It was good, I played quite solid. I hardly missed any shots besides the hole that I made bogey, I hit the bunker and I got a bad lie there, but besides that I played very solid.
Home favourite Wenyi Ding had two eagles in his 66 on the Vintage Course, Jason Scrivener matched that score, with six birdies in a bogey-free round, as did Dylan Frittelli with seven birdies and a bogey.
Thriston Lawrence had eight birdies and two bogeys - both on par-fives - on the Blackstone Course, where Aaron Cockerill also shot 66 with seven birdies and a bogey.
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