DP World Tour : BMW Australian PGA Championship Leaderboard Tee Times
Sebastian Garcia opened up a two shot lead with three holes left to play before play was suspended due to lightning on the opening day of the new DP World Tour season at the BMW Australian PGA Championship.
Making the most of his first start back since regaining his DP World Tour card through the Road to Mallorca Rankings on the Hotel Planner Tour, the Spaniard went bogey-free for the first 15 holes on Thursday at Royal Queensland.
Garcia, who was in one of the many groups unable to complete their rounds on Thursday, will resume his opening round at 6am AEST on Friday, with second round tee times pushed back by 90 minutes.
He has just three holes left to play, while others will have to complete 11 holes of the first round before getting their second rounds under way, with the first groups of round two teeing off at approximately 7:30am AEST.
Behind him, Australian Daniel Gale sits in solo second and -5 through 12 holes, having produced the second hole in one of the new season at the par-three 11th (Kazuma Kobori had the first on the 17th).
With an 8-iron from 154 meters, Gale delighted home fans, taking one bounce to the left of the flag and then finding its way to the bottom of the cup to win a BMW M5 Touring.
He was -2 for his opening ten holes when he arrived at the par-three 11th, then added a fourth birdie of his round at the 12th to sit two behind Garcia with six holes of his opening round left to complete.
Gale, who is 887th on the Official World Golf Ranking, played on the DP World Tour last year but finished 171st on the Race to Dubai Ranking, with a best of tied 17th in Austria, is not losing focus on the opportunity ahead of him this week after missing out on regaining his playing privileges at second stage of DP World Tour Qualifying School.
“The biggest thing for me straight after the hole-in-one is reset and onto the next and made a nice birdie on 12,” he added later.
Of those that did finish were home favourites Min Woo Lee and Adam Scott, who made it into the clubhouse on -3, but it was Scott's playing partner Ryan Fox that set the early clubhouse target at -4 67.
Fox, who hasn't played competitive golf anywhere since he finished tied 14th at the FedEx Open de France in September, also started from the tenth, making two birdies in his opening nine holes for a front-nine 33.
He bounced back from a dropped shot at the second hole (on his back nine) with back-to-back birdies from the fourth, parring his way in to set the target for the rest of the field.
Reflecting on his round after two months off, Fox said that while he hadn't been expecting much he was "really happy".
edit>>>> Newly minted Canadian, now a PGA Tour member from the Korn Ferry Tour, Yellamaraju Sudarshan is T22 -2 69. The young lefty made 4 birdies on his first nine in his debut.
Fellow Canadian, Aaron Cockerill has made the trip down to Brisbane, a 16 hour time difference from EST, is +1 through 10 holes, and will be another player returning early on Friday to finish rd1 and begin his 2nd round.
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